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JOURNAL
OF THE
HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
TENTH LEGISLATURE
OF THE
STATE OF ARIZONA
1931
SESSION CONVENED-JANUARY TWELFTH
SESSION ADJOURNED-SINE DIE AT TWELVE O'CLOCK
MIDNIGHT
MARCH FOURTEENTH
NINETEEN HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE
OfFICERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OF THE TENTH STATE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA
J\/L J. Fl:annon ........................................................................... Speaker
Lallah Ruth .............................................................................. Chief Clerk
J .. C. Provost. ................. _.. ... --··---···-······-·-····----------- ···--······---.Sergeant-at-Al'"m·si
Rev. C. M. Burkhart _________ ....................... . _____ Ch2splain
MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OF THE TENTH STATE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA
Apache County _____________ p, I. Ashcroft ______________________ R _____ ------------------- Eagar
Cochise Cotmty ____________ Wm. E. Oxsheer__., ___ , ___________ D ________________________ Bisbee
Cochise County .Mrs. J. E. Bevan __________ D ____________________ .... Bisbee
Cochise County ___________ Thomas Cowperthwaite _______ D___________ ... 'Warre11
Cochise County_, ___ James -w. Baker__ ________________ D________ _Douglas
Cochise County__ ___ A. E. Hinton____ ___ D ____ . _________ Douglas
Cochise County ___________ , .. D. A. Adams __________________________ D ______________________ Dragoon
Cochise County _Wm. Coxon ___ D _______________________ 1Nillcox
Coconino County ____________ Howard Marine__ ___ R .... ______________ Flagstaff
Coconino County ____________ T. H. Cureton ____________________ R. ____ Williams
Gila County____ _ _______ Roy F. Kelley ______________________ D_____ __ ____ Miami
Gila County ___ .L T. Lewis __________________________ D ___________________________ Globe
Gila County __________ Lon Walters __________________________ D ___________________________ Globe
Gila County ___________________ .John McCormick ________________ D ________________________ Payson
Gila County _____ W. G. Rosenbaum _______________ D ________ , ______________ Hayden
Graham County__ .... .Jesse A. Udall__ ......... __________ R ____ . ____ Thatcher
Graham County ___________ .Joseph H. Lines __________________ [)__ __ _____ Pima
Greenlee County .......... W. T. Witt ________________________ D _________________________ Clifton
Greenlee County ______ lvI. J. Hannon _______________________ D ______________________ Morenci
Maricopa County _______ Hugn Callahan ____________________ D ______________________ Phoenix
Maricopa County ________ T. B. Stewart _______________________ D ______________________ Phoenix
Maricopa County _________ Bridgie M. Porter ______________ D _______ .. ______________ Phoenix-
Maricopa County __________ T. T. Bone _________________ D ______________________ Phoen:ix
Maricopa County _________ lVI. V. Decker ______________________ D _______________________ Phoenix
Maricopa County __________ .James B. Sayers ________________ D _______________________ Phoenix
Maricopa County. _________ Gertrude B. Leeper... ___________ D _______________________ Phoenix
Maricopa County ____ ...... ,Ta. Alton Riggs ______________________ D ___________________________ Mesa
Maricopa County _____ . ___ .r. Lee Loveless ________ D _____________________ Chandler
Maricopa ,County _________ D. R. Van Petten _______________ R_____________ _ ___ Tempe
Maricopa County _________ L. 0. DuRoss ______________ D ___________________ Scottsdale
Maricopa County _________ C. A. McKee___ _ ________ D ______________________ Glendale
Maricopa County __________ -T. R. Barnette ___ D ______________ ,Vickenburg
Maricopa County Wm. Walton____ _ _________ R_ ______________ Palo Verde
Maricopa -County _________ J. F. Jennings _____________________ D ______________________ P:hoenix
Maricopa County ________ Renz L. Jennings ______________ D__ _ _________ P,hoenix
Maricopa County _______ Conner .Johnson ___________________ D ______________________ Phoenix
Maricopa County _________ M. J. Francis ________________ D __ Plrnenix (deceased)
Maricopa County_ _ ___ Mary Francis. _______________________ D _______________________ Phoenix
Maricopa ,County __ W. L. Rigney __ D _____________________ Phoenix
Maricopa County ________ lVIrs. H. C. Cavness ____________ D _____________________ Glendale
Maricopa County ________ Albert L. Peck_ ___________________ D _______________________ Phoenix
Maricopa County ____ . _J. J. IPhillips __ _ __________ D ______________________ Phoenix
Mohave County _____________ Anson H. Smith ___________ D ____________________ Kingma11
Navajo County __________ l\farshall H. Flake _______________ R ________________ Snowflak2
Navajo County _____________ Chas. J. McQuillan. ______________ R___ ___ Winslow
Pima County _______________ C. T. Reddington __________________ D _____________________ Tucsm,
Pima County__ __ ______ .John H. Rapp_ ___ _ D ______ ... ____ Tucson
Pima County .................. D. lVI. Penny ......................... D ............................ Tuc,son
Pima County .................. Thos. .Malony ..................... D ......................... Tucson
Pima County ................... August Wieden ...................... D ............................ Tucson
Pima County .................. Oliver B. P:;itton .................. D ............................ Ajo
Pima County ................. Thos. D. Tway ..................... D ......................... Tucson
Pima County .................. Kenneth K. ·surber .............. D....... . ......... Tucson
Pinal County ................ H. J. Valentihe ..................... D...... . .. Superior
Pinal County .......... Thos. S. Ric.hards ................ D ............................. Ray
Santa Cruz County ........ Edwin F. Bohlinger.. .D.......... ..Patagonia
Yavapai County ............ S. A. Spear.. .. D ... . .... Prescott
Yavapai County ..... ., ..... F. L. Benham ....... R......... . ....... Jerome
Yavapai County ............ V. C. Wiggins. ..R.... .Clarkdale
Yavapai County ............ Annie Campbell Jones ........ D ......... Prescott
Yavapai County ............ Grant H. Merrill .......... D ........ Prescott
Yuma County ................ Nellie T. Bush ........................ D ............... . ... Parker
Yuma County ................ A. vV. Johnson. . ....... R .......... Yuma
Ymna County ................ John Doan ............................... R. ............... . .... Yuma
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HOlTSE JOlJRNAL
TENTH LEGISLATURE
STATE OF ARIZONA
MONDAY, JANUARY TWELVE
The House of Representatives of the Tenth Legislature of the
State of Arizona convened in regular session in the House Chambers
at the Capitol Building in the City of Phoenix in accordance with the
provisions of the Constitution of the State of Arizona relating to the
assembling of the State Legislature, at 12 :00 o'clock Meridian, and vvas
called to order by Mr. Thomas lVIalony of Pima County, the oldest
member-elect in point of age, to preside as Chairman, pro tempore.
Prayer by the Reverend C. M. Burkhart.
The Chairman pro tempore appointed \Mrs. Lallah Ruth to be
the temporary Chief Clerk of the House.
The roll was called, and the following members-elect answered
to their names.
Apache County.... . .......................... P. L Ashcroft
Cochise County. .Wm. E. Oxsheer
Cochise County ...... Mrs. J. E. Bevan
Cochise County ..... Thomas Cowperthwaite
Cochise County...... . ............. James W. Baker
Cochise County ..... . . ... A. E. Hinton
Cochise County.... .D. A. Adams
Cochise County...... . .. Wm. Coxon
Coconino County.. . ..... Howard Marine
Coconino County ........ T. H. Cureton
Gila County. . ..... Roy F. Kelley
Gila County........ . ..................... J. T. Lewis
Gila. County... . ... Lon Walters
Gila County.......... .. .... John McCormick
Gila County. . .. W. G. Rosenbaum
Graham County.......... . ..... Jesse A. Udall
Graham County........ . ...... Joseph H. Lines
Greenlee County........... .. ....... W. T. Witt
Greenlee County. . ................ M. J. Hannon
Maricopa County... ...... .Hugh Callahan
Maricopa County....................... .. ................. T. B. Stewart
Maricopa County_ ..................... . ............. Bridgie M. Porter
:Maricopa County ................................................. ; ...... J. T. Bone
Maricopa County .................................................... 1\1. V. Decker
Maricopa County ................................................ James B. Sayers
Maricopa County ........................................... Gertrude B. Leeper
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Maricopa County...... ............... . .... L. Alton Riggs
Maricopa County..... ........ .................. . ..... ,L Lee Loveless
Maricopa County....... . ........................... D. R. Van Petten
Maricopa County..... .............................. . .. L. 0. DuRoss
Maricopa County.. ................. ....................... . ... C. A. !McKee
Maricopa County...... . .... J. R. Barnette
Maricopa County........................ . .......... Wm. V\Talton
Maricopa County..... . ..... J. F. Jennings
Maricopa County.................. . ........... Renz L. Jennings
Maricopa County ........................... Conner Johnson
Maricopa County .................................................... M. J. Francis
Maricopa County ................................................ W. L. Rigney
Maricopa County .......................................... Mrs. H. C. Cavness
Maricopa County ........... , ...................................... Albert L. Peck
Maricopa County.... . ........................................... J. J. Phillips
Mojave County........ . .. Anson H. Smith
Navajo County.......... . ............... Marshall H. Flake
Navajo County............. . .............. Chas. J. McQuillan
Pima County................... . ............ C. T. Reddington
Pima County.................... . .................. John H. Rapp
Pima County................. . ............ D. M. Penny
Pima County ............ T.hos. Malony
Pima County............... . ....... August Wieden
Pima County..... . ....... Oliver B. Patton
Pima County........ . . .......................... Thos D. Tway
Pima County..... . .... Kenneth K. Surber
Pinal County.. . .................................... H. J. Valentine
Pinal County...... . ............... Thos. S. Richards
Santa Cruz County ............ Edwin F. Bohlinger
Yavapai County................. . . ....... S. A. Spear
Yavapai County... . ...................... F. L. Benham
Yavapai County....................... . ..................... V. C. Wiggins
Yavapai County.......... . ............. Annie Campbell Jones
Yavapai County ........... Grant H. M.errill
Yuma County.................................. . ........ Nellie T. Bush
Yum:;i County........... . ...... A. W. Johnson
Yuma County.. John Doan
Motion, by Mr. Coxon, seconded by Mr. Reddington that a com-·
mittee of three be appointed as a Committee on Credentials to receive
and consider the credentials of the members of the House of Repr.e­sentatives.
Carried and the Chairman pro tempore appointed rnemben;
Rapp, Rosenbaum and Leeper as such a committee.
\Vithout objection, at 12 :06 o'clock p. 111., the House stood at
recess, subject to the call of the gavel.
At 12 :23 o'clock p. m., the Chairman pro tempore called the
House to order.
REPORTS OF SELECT COMMITTE,ES
The C()Jmfuittee on Credentials submitted the following report;
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"January 12, 1931.
Mr. Chairman:
Your Committee on Credentials reports 'that all
members answering the roll call are qualified and entitled
to their seats as members of the House of Representa­tives
of the Tenth Legislature of the State of Arizona.
JOHiN H. RAPP,
Chairman.
GERTRUDE BRYAN LEEPER,
W. G. ROSENBAUM."
Motion by Mr. Loveless, seconded by Mrs. Bush, that the report
of the Committee on Credentials be adopted. Carried, and the Chair­man
pro tempore thanked and discharged the committee.
Motion by Mr. Coxon, seconded by Mr. Rosenbaum, that a com­mittee
of three be appointed to wait upon the Chief Justice and inform
him that the members-elect of the House of Representatives were
ready to take the oath of office. Carried, and the Chairmon pro
tempore appointed members Hinton, Smith and Bush as such a com­mittee.
At 12:30 o'clock p. m., the committee appointed to wait upon
the Chief Justice reported that it had discharged the duties imp,osed
upon it, and the Chairman pro tempore discharged the committee.
At 12 :31 o'clock p. m., Chief Justice McAllister appeared before
the House and administered the oath of office to the members of the
House as follows:
"You, and each of you, do solemnly swear that you
will support the Constitution of the United States, and the
Constitution and Laws of the State of Arizona; that you
will true faith and allegiance bear to the same, and defend
them against all enemies whatsoever, and that you will
faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office
of a member of the House of Representatives of the State
of Arizona according to the best of your ability, so help
you God."
Motion by Mr. Coxon, seconded by Mr. McKee, that the House
extend a vote of thanks to the Honorable Chief Justice McAllister for
his services in administering the oath of office to the members of the
House. Carried by unanimous vote.
Motion by Mr. Coxon, seconded by JYfr. Valentine, that Mr. M. J.
Hannen be placed in nomination for Speaker of the House.
Motion by Mr. Coxon, seconded by Mr. Reddington, that the
nominations be closed and that the Speaker be elected by acclamation.
Carried by unanimous vote.
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At 12 :35 o'clock p. m., the Chairman pro tern pore appointed
:members McCormick, Sayers and Peck to escort the Speaker to the
chair.
Mr. Speaker expressed his appreciation of the honor conferred
upon him.
'Motion by Mr. Rosenbaum, seconded by Mr. Richards, that the
House extend a vote of thanks to the retiring Chairman pro tempore.
'Carried by unanimous vote.
Motion by Mr. Francis, seconded by Mr. Coxon, that Mrs. Lallah
Ruth be placed in nomination for Chief Clerk of the House.
Motion by Mr. Coxon, seconded by r.1r. Richards, that the nomi­nations
be closed and that the Chief Clerk be elected by acclamation.
Carried by unanimous vote.
At 12:40 o'clock p. m., the Sergeant-at-Arms. announced a com­mittee
from the Senate consisting of Senators Pomeroy, Farmer and
Hill, who notified the House that the Senate was organized and ready
for business.
Mr. Speaker thanked the Cornrnitte·e.
Motion by Mr. Loveless, seconded by Mr. Barnette, that Reverend
C. M. Burkhart be placed in nomination for Chaplain of the House.
Motion by Mr. McKee, seconded by Mr. Oxsheer, that the nomi­nations
be closed and that the Chaplain be elected by acclamation.
Carried by unanimous vote.
Motion by Mrs. Porter, seconded by Mr. Francis, that Mr. J. C.
Provost be placed in nomination for Se1~geant-at-Arrns.
Motion by Mr. Barnette, seconded by Mr. Oxsheer, that the
nominations be closed and that the Sergeant-at-Arms be elected by
acclamation. Carried by unanimous vote.
Motion by Mr. Coxon, seconded by Mrs. Bush, that a Committee
<Df three be appointed to notify the Senate that the House was or­ganized
and ready .for business.
Motion by Mr. Rosenbaum, seconded by Mr. Rigney, that the
motion by Mr. Coxon be amended, and that the committee consist of
the six lady members of the House. Carried, and Mr. Speaker ap­pointed
Mesdames Bush, Bevan, Cavness, Porter, Jones and Leeper as
such a committee.
At 12:50 o'clock p. m., the committee appointed to wait upon
the Senato reported that it had dischar.2:ed the duties imposed upon
it and Mr. Speaker discharged the committee.
Motion by Mr. Malony, seconded by Mr. Coxon, that a corn-·
mittee be appointed to meet with a like committee from the Senate to
wait upon the Governor and notify him that the Tenth Legislature
was organized and ready to reeeive any message he might have for
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them. Carried, and Mr. Speaker appointed members Malony, Witt and
Kelley as such a committee.
At 12:51 o'clock p. m., the Sergeant-at-Arms announced a com­mittee
from the Senate consisting of Senators Nelson, Smith and Col­lins,
who notified the House that the Senate was ready to meet with
a like committee from the House to wait upon the Governor and notify
him that the Tenth Legislature was organized and ready to receive
any message he might have for them.
Mr. Speaker thanked the committee.
At 12:55 o'clock p. m., the committee appointed to notify the
Governor that the Tenth Legislature was ,organized and teady to Te­ceive
any message he might have for them reported that the GoveTnor
was ready to deliver his message at any time.
Mr, Speaker thanked and discharged the committee.
Motion by Mr. Rosenbaum, seconded by Mr. Peck, that the
House and Senate meet in Joint Session at 1: 15 o'clock p. 111., for the
purpose of heaTing the GoveTnor's message. Carried.
Motion by Mr. Loveless, seconded by Mr. Coxon, that the priv­ileges
of the floor be extended to Mr. Dan P. Jones, former member
:md Speaker of the House. Canied.
Motion by Mr. SayeTS, seconded by Mrs. Bush, that the House
stand at recess until 1 :15 o'clock p. m.
Motion by ,Mr. Coxon, seconded by Mrs. Bush, that the motion
by Mr. Sayers be amended and that the House stand at Tecess until
1 :10 o'clock p. m. Carried, and at 12 :59 o'clock p. m. the House stood
at recess.
At 1 :10 o'clock p. 111., the House resumed session, Mr. Speaker
presiding.
At 1 :21 o'clo.ck p. m., the Sergeant-at-Arms announced the Sen­ate
of the State of Arizona.
JOINT SESSION OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESEN­TATIVES
OF THE TENTH LEGISLATURE OF
THE STATE OF ARIZONA
The joint session of the Tenth Legislature was called to order
at 1 :22 o'clock p. m., Mr. President presiding.
The Senate roll call showed the following members present:
Bouldin, Collins, Crenshaw, Cull, Donnelly, Farmer, Favour, Haldiman,
Hill, Jones, Kelley, Midgley, McEachran, Nelson, Pomeroy, Smith,
Mr. President-I 7.
Absent: McFaTland-1.
Excused: Kinney-1.
The House Toll mil showed the following members present:
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Adams, Ashcroft, Baker, Barnette, Benham, Bevan, Bohlinger, Bone,
Bush, Callahan, Cavness, Coxon, Cowperthwaite, Cureton, Decker, Doan,
DuRoss, Flake, Francis, Hinton, Jennings, Jennings, Johnson, Johnson,
Jones, Kelley, Leeper, Lewis, Lines, Loveless, Malony, Marine, Merrill,
McCormick, McKee, McQuillan, Oxsheer, Patton, Peck, Penny, Phillips,
Porter, Rapp, Reddington, Richards, Rigney, Riggs, Rosenbaum, Say­ers,
Smith, Spear, Stewart, Surber, Tway, Udall, Valentine, Van Petten,
·walters, \,\Talton, Witt, vVieden, Wig·gins, Mr. Speaker-63.
'iV"ithout objection Mr. President appointed Senators Pomeroy
~md Donnelly and members, Porter, Kelley, and Witt as a committee
to wait upon the Governor and escort him to the House Chamber.
At 1 :28 o'clock p. m., the Sergeant-at-Arms announced his Ex­cellency,
the Governor of Arizona. The Governor was introduced by
President Sutter and at his request Senator Pomeroy read the Gov­ernor's
message to the Legislature as follows:
MESSAGE OF THE GOVERNOR
1Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Tenth Arizona Legis­lature:
UNEMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMY
I am purposely grouping these two subjects to­gether,
because each bears upon the other. Under pres­ent
conditions, necessity for economy is apparent to all.
Of even more transcendent importance at this time, is the
need for supplying employment of a constructive nature
for as many jobless citizens of Arizona as is possible.
To this end, and for this purpose, I strongly recom­mend
the immediate amendment of the Highway Code,
so as to restore the full privilege -of the state highway
department to do work on force account. I do this in
order that the funds flowing into the highway department
coffers may be made immediately available for the em­ployment
of Arizona citizens on highway construction and
improvement. The red tape and delay necessary to calling
for and rejecting bids twice befme work can be done on
force account should be eliminated in face of the present
cns1s. To the man whose family is in want because the
bread winner is without employment, even a few days' de­lay
in securing work is tragic.
Therefore, I sincerely trust that one of the initial
objects of atte1stion of this legislature will be the restora­tion
of the full privilege of the highway department of
doing work of every nature, on force account. This is
legislation that in every sense is of an emergency nature"
The year just passed marked a period of great financial
depression" Business enterprises throughout the nation
suffered severely. Millions of working men and women
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were faced with unemployment, with all the attendant
misery and distress which such a condition entails. While
our own state fortunately suffered less severely from the
general depression that other less favored localities, we did
not escape the common experience. Business enterprises
in Arizona suffered. Thousands of our citizens lost their
means of livelihood. Sturdy, industrious citizens and those
dependent upon them found themselves in destitute cir­cumstances,
because there was no market for the labor
of their hands or brains.
The purchasing power of the consumers in our state
·was drastically curtailed. Trade and commerce suffered
as a result. Under these depressing circumstances the bur­den
of taxation falls with unusual weight upon the rate
payers.
There is pressing need in order to lighten this
burden of taxation, that every bill or measure which comes
before the legislature carrying an appropriation of public
funds should he carefully examined as to its necessity and
timeliness. Every act of this legislature requiring an ap­propriation
of public funds should be subjected to the test
of real necessity and present urgency. This is no time for
political experimentation nor for indulgence in untried leg­islation,
fads or fancies, no matter how eloquent the ap­peal
of their advocates may be.
I urge further that every legislative proposal sub­mitted
to you for your consideration and action be ex­amined
closely to determine whether or not it involves
duplication or overlapping of functions and duties now
performed, or which should be performed, by some depart­ment
of our state government.
If, in the wisdom of the legislature it is necessary
for our state government to embark upon new activities
and to assume heavier responsibilities, then I urge that
wherever it be found possible, such functions shall be dis­charged
by public offices already established and main­tained,
rather than through the creation of new offices
which will add further to the expense of the government.
While strict economy must prevail and every expen­diture
of public monies must meet the test of necessity,
we would fail in our duties as public servants were a
purely negative policy to be followed. There is urgent
need for intelligent, constructive co-operation on the part
of the state legislature and the executive department, for
action that will relieve the distress of unemployment
among our citizens to the extent that is possible along
practical lines.
Necessary new construction of highways, and en-
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largements and improvements of state buildings should
be undertaken at the earliest possible moment and funds
appropriated therefor.
Work on needed and necessary highways should be
initiated with the minimum of red tape and delay to the
maximum ·Of capacity of the state to pay therefor to pro­vide
employment of this constructive and justifiable char­acter.
The mere creation of new a11d unproductive jobs,
however, should be carefully avoided. For every dollar
of public money authorized by the legislature there should
result a feasible and tangible public improvement.
Your careful scrutiny of appropriahon measures
should not entail false economy nor lead to a niggardly
policy of harm to the functions of established state de­partments
and institutions performing work and duties
essential to the public welfare. This applies particularly
to the eelymosynary institutions of our state. Better
that a public employe in good health should suffer the ef­fects
of financial retrenchment than that the defenseless
aged or infirm wards of the state have their troubles in­creased.
In the construction of all appropriation measures
there should be an earnest endeavor to reach a happy
medium of intelligent constructive economy rather than a
blind and directionless policy of ruthless curtailment which
often proves expensive in the end.
CITIZEN LABOR
Under the terms of the constitutional amendment
adopted by vote of the electorate at the last general elec­tion,
employment on public works of every nature is lim­ited
to citizens and wards of the government. By this en­actment,
evasion of the intention of the statutory pro­vision
through abuse of the clause permitting the em­ployment
of persons who had declared their intention to
become citizens, should be terminated.
There is no longer any vestige of an excuse for per­mitting
the displacement of citizen laborers on public
works by the substitution of aliens who have declared their
intention to become citizens for the sole purpose of quali­fying
for such employment, but with no intention or desire
to complete their citizenship.
In the past there has been difficulty in securing the
cooperation of some public officials of the state and its
subdivisions in the enforcement of the constitutional pro­vision
against the employment ·Of aliens on public works.
The frequent excuse for unenforcement was that there
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were no funds available. I have never considered this as
a valid or well-founded exoneration. Where there is a
vdll to enforce a statute a way may generally be found.
While the law has prescribed penalties for contrac­tors
employing aliens on public works, no adequate punish­ment
is prnvided for officials guilty of laxity in its en­forcement.
I urge an enactment by this legislature which will
provide salutary penalties for state, county or municipal
officials who knowingly permit the employment of aliens
on public works, with a provision that conviction therefor
shall automatically carry with it impeachment in office.
IMMIGR/\.TION
During recent years there have arisen in Arizona
serious economic, social and political problems as a result
of unlimited immigration of illiterate, poverty stricken and
destitute workers and their families from Mexico.
Imported during a period of national emergency to
meet industrial demands, and subsequently to supply al­leged
shortages of labor in specific industries, this larg·e
and increasing foreign element now constitutes a serious
threat to American standards of living and long estab­lished
scales of wages of American workers.
These immigrants have proved to be difficult of
assimilation into the body of our citizenship. All too often
they neither desire nor intend to qualify themselves for
American citizenship.
Thousands of Arizona workers have been displaced
in employment by these non-citizen laborers and artisans.
The burden of public charity has been rendered
;nuch heavier through the presence of large numbers of
· these impoverished and improvident aliens.
In certain communities within our state where they
constitute a preponderate proportion of the population,
unpleasant racial animosities and conflicts with established
authority have arisen.
This immigration, if continued unchecked, bodes ill
for the future of the American population of Arizona and
for the preservation of American ideals and standards
of living and government.
I therefore urge upon the Arizona legislature the
adoption of a memorial addressed to tl:e Congress of the
United States, petitioning the prompt enactment of legis­lation
for the application of the quota law to the countries
of the North and South American continents as it now
applies to other nations.
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I urge this in order that prompt, effective and per­manent
reduction of this type of immigration may be
brought about for the protection of our citizens and their
institutions, as well as for the maintenance of wage stan­dards
established for those immigrant workers who are
already in our midst.
I further urge this action in the hope that continual
displacements of citizen workers in Arizona industries may
be terminated.
COPPER TARIFF
The past year and a half has encompassed a period
of particularly drastic curtailment of production with re­sultant
unemployment and business depression in the
great copper industry of our state. This adverse condi­tion
has been reflected throughout every line of business.
Other enterprises have suffered because of the distress of
our copper industry. This situation has been periodical
to the copper industry. It has arisen contrary to the
ordinary rules which govern industry and commerce. Cop­per
prices reached the lowest level in more than three
decades notwithstanding there was an increased and varied
demand for the product in our domestic markets. Al­though
copper was · being used to an extent never ap­proached
before in the history of the industry, the market
sagged and production languished. Thousands of Arizona
miners lost their employment; other thousands suffered re­ductions
in wages and lessened earning capacities. Living
standards had to be definitely lowered to correspond with
diminished incomes. Business and trade in the larger
mining districts experienced tragic losses. In thousands of
instances taxes which had been paid without serious in­convenience
under happier circumstances became a menace
to continued home ownership and business operation. This
unhappy condition was intensified and accentuated
through the operation of a drastic and confiscatory de­linquent
tax law.
Practically all elements in our copper industry from
the humblest mucker in the mines to the directors of the
great corporations which operate these Arizona proper­ties,
are now agreed that the depression in the copper
market from which our state has suffered so severely is
a direct result of the flooding ,of the American market
with cheap labor copper from the Latin American coun­tries,
Canada and Africa. There is also common agree­n;
ent among copper producers whose major investments
are in the United States, that the only assurance against
a repetition of these periodical depressions in the copper
industry lies in the imposition by Congress of an adequate
tariff against the foreign metal entering this country.
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It is generally realized that the prosperity and well
being of -our great copper industry and the tens of thous­ands
of Arizona citizens dependent thereon for a livelihood,
lie in the preservation of the American market for the
American copper producers.
The ruinous loss and misery besetting the total
citizenship of our state through continued lowering of cop­per
prices and production demand an immediate remedy.
Our domestic copper mining industry was founded
seventy years ago due to a high protective ore and ingot
tariff. This protection remained effective for thirty years,
when it was destroyed at the behest of eastern copper im-
. porting and refining interests.
Protection must again be obtained, and that im­mediately,
in order that our citizenship can meet the col­ossal
and destructive competition of world-wide copper
imports produced by cheap and impressed labor in other
lands.
Arizona has produced one-third of all the copper
mined within our country since its very beginning; she
does now annually produce forty per cent of all our do­mestically
mined copper and has within her area sixty
per cent of the leading domestic copper producing districts.
Arizona's copper mining industry for a generation
past has paid about one-half of our total state taxes.
Since the passage of the Fordney-l\!IcCumber taTiff
bill-which continued to free list our copper ingot-eight
years ago, we find that we consumed, at home eighty­eight
pounds out of every hundred mined, and of the
twelve pounds available for export we find eleven pounds
were shipped abroad in a highly manufactured pr,otected
fonn or as junk metal. The remaining one pouxid or one
per cent of our total domestic unprotected ingot copper
production sold abroad the past eight years penalized us to
the extent of accepting the world's free trade commodity
price; the same being seventy per cent less than the
average received for all the domestically mined protected
metals.
All other leading industries within Arizona and our
country are highly protected. All the ether leading
metals and their manufactures-iron, steel, lead, zinc,
aluminum, manganese, tungsten, antimony, quicksilver,
molybdenum, mentioning only ten out of two hundred and
fifty metals, and their varying blended alloys are also
highly protected in the recently passed Smoot-Hawley
tariff act.
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The eastern fabricated copper article has received
high and rigid protection. The Arizona copper miner
deems it vicious discrimination to leave his product-the
high cost, manufactured, refined copper ingot on the free.
list. Everything that goes to make up its many cost
factors must be sought within our highly protected d,o­mestic
market.
A compensatory commodity price through a pro­tective
tariff must be secured immediately for our coppei·
ingot, otherwise our copper miner can not secure an equit.­able
and continuous wage nor can our state secure suf­ficient
taxes to maintain essential civic conditions.
The matter of tariff does not lie in the province of
the state legislature. I strongly urge upon you the pass­age
of a memorial to the Congress of the United States,
praying for prompt relief for this great Arizona industry
through the enactment of a tariff bill at the earliest pos­sible
moment.
THE COLORADO RIVER
For eight years the Colorado River question has
been the most important problem before the people of
Arizona. It remains s,o today.
We are confronted vvith a federal law that provides
for the transfer from our state to the federal govern­ment
of the control of the water now used by our cities
and towns; stock raisers and ranchers; mines and manu­factories
and irrigation and hydro-electric power projects ..
This law repeals every water law on our statute
books and irrigation customs and procedure approved by
centuries of use. · This law says to Arizona: "Thus far
have you grown and prospered, no farther may you pro­gress."
This law seeks to control not only the waters
which flow into the Boulder reservoir, but the water and
power of other Arizona tributaries which join the Colorado
river hundreds of miles below the Hoover dam site.
The vicious unfairness to Arizona of this law he­comes
more apparent as the rules and regulations of the
department of interior, set up under it, are studied,
Arizona now realizes that, with the President, tho
Secretary of Interior, the Director of the Bureau of Recla­mation
and the Executive Secretary of the Federal Power
Commission, all from California and subverting their na­tional
positions to secure her exclusive benefits, we can
expect neither justice nor consideration from the executive
departments of our national government. The President
has rewarded with appointment Arizona men who have
been active in writing and speaking against the state's
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interest. Conferences to negotiate agreements between the
states have failed. Resolutions in our fa,ror by
governors of other states, acting as mediators, been
repudiated by their sponsors. Without other recourse we
are driven to sue our neighboring states and the fedenil
government in the hig·hest court in the land.
For the last two years Arizona's interests in the
Colorado river have been managed by those wh() in the
early days of our resistance to the theft of Arizona re­sources
by California and Mexico, were our critics. This
has been partly fortunate, in that the last minority of our
people have been shown that the early champions of Ari­zona
were not playing politics when defending the state.
The recent administration received less consideration
and was offered harsher terms than were tendered and re­jected
by earlier Arizona commissions. They have been
enlightened.
Their resentment oi the unfairness shown by Sec­retary
Wilbur and the California river commission shouid
now make for unanimity of thought in Arizona.
Our state suffered one severe loss in the last two
years in the defection of Utah. That state 01·ig·inaHy
signed the six-state compact against Arizona. Four years
ago the leaders in Utah were converted. They repealed
the six-state agreement and for two years fought by our
side. Utah should have remained with us, as our desire
to retain the control of the water and power of the states
by the people is mutual. Utah is one state that has not
been deceived by Wilbur's "Greek gift" of turning over the
federal desert lands to the states at the same time that
he is trying to obtain control of the state's water. with­out
which the land is worthless.
Too late the citizens of Utah, New Mexico, Colorado
and even Nevada are now complaining of the unfairness
of the Boulder dam act. Too late do they realize that
their resources may be the next which a larger voting
ulation may ask the federal government to nationalize
deliver to raiders.
Had Utah alone sto-od with us, the Boulder dam act
would be void and no appeal to the courts would be nece,s­sary.
Those who lost us Utah are more to blame for that
action than for their early espousal of the Santa Fe com­pact.
There should be a limit to the excuse of ignorance.
Eight years ago I recommended that the leg·islature
give careful consideration to the Colorado Tiver
to act slowly and cautiously. I can but renew
ommendation.
Five legislatures of Ai'izona have rejected the Santa
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Fe compact and Swing-Johnson bills. What you do will
determine whether Arizona bec,omes a great and prosper­ous
state, or that we have alTeady approached the end of
our growth and with mineral exhaustion will go backward,
like the ghost state of Nevada.
The attorney general has filed a complaint in the
supreme court. Against Arizona will be arrayed all the
bureaucracy of Washington and the legal and engineering
talent that the gold of the land harpies of California and
· Mexico can buy.
The forces of the other five basin states will prob­ably
remain neutral· unless they see how to have our state
sovereignty destroyed without impelling their own.
Our only h-0pe for outside help in this unequal bat­tle
is that by broadening our case, we may seek a deci­sion
that will create such a precedent for future in­evitable
contests between states regarding their water
supplies, that other states in position similar to Arizona
will intervene.
It is cheerful to know that since our well advertised
resistance to California's attempted steal of our waters,
nearly half of the states in the union have witnessed the
start of lawsuits regarding power, irrigatio:q and domestic
use of waters and that in the few cases the courts or their
special masters have spoken, the decisions have not been
unfavorable to our cause.
Ours is no small case. No doubt months, perhaps
years, will be required to present the evidence and argu­ments
of the various state and federal officals. The loca-·
tion of some fifteen billion dollars of wealth in new de­velopment
will depend on the court decision.
If we win this case Arizona will eventually receive
four or five billion dollars of new development. If we lose,
Arizona gets nothing. We should either make a supreme
effort or abandon the fight entirely. The choice is yours,
but the latter course is unthinkable.
Heretofore volunteers have borne the major bur­den
of the cost of Arizona's resistance. The state has
spent a mere pittance in comparison with the expendi­tures
of our adversaries. While .even these amounts are
a burden to our taxpayers, if we can retain our consti­tutional
right to tax all property not used for actual gov­ernmental
purposes, our tax receipts fr.om the new wealth
invested in Arizona reservoirs and hydro-electric plants in
a single year will pay many times the cost of our entire
effort.
After forty years experience in state business af­fairs
in Arizona where a progressive people demand muclL
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from their government, I am frank to say there is small
prospect of material tax reduction unless we can secure
additio.nal development to assist in bearing the tax bur­den.
I know of no other great potential development ex­cept
from that due to irrigation and hydro-electric power
that we may anticipate.
As chairman of the Colorado river commission, I
learned that Arizona possesses dam sites at which res­ervoirs
can be constructed that will provide storage for
four times as much power and can be built far cheaper
than the one proposed at Boulder, and that our state has
several million acres of land that can be put under irri­gation
more cheaply than additional acreage can be
watered in California, in either the Coachella valley or
on the coastal plain.
The refusal of the federal commission to accept my
invitation to investigate these Arizona projects at the ex­pense
of the state constitutes another page in the history
of the national administration's unfairness to Arizona.
The supreme court, if it follows precedent, will ap­point
a master to take testimony in regard to our case.
It ii. most regretable that during the last two years noth­ing
has been done to continue the securing of the engineer­ing
data to substantfa1te our case before the court.
We should be in a position to show that· it is not
only legally just, but more economical, to bring people to
the land and water of Arizona, than to have California
first secure a large population by the advertising of its
possible opportunities for development, and then to de­mand
that our resources be transferred to that state to
make good their impractical plans at the expense of the
federal government.
The plan of frrigation development in Arizona, con­trary
to that of the federal government in California,
would permit of gradual or stage construction, thus avoid­ing
the excessive interest charges, which, however dis­guised,
must be paid by someone, during the time it will
take to secure full occupancy and cultivation of the land.
Stage development also will tend to avoid sudden, exces­sive
production and the resultant cut-throat competition
with existing southwestern farms.
Arizona's remarkable irrigation development in the
last decade despite the general agricultural depression is
proof that land hunger still remains, and that when water
is available people will come to make farms and homes
in o_ur state.
The retention and use of the water of the main
,Colorado river on Arizona soil have ceased to be a matter
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of insuring our future. The time once considered as the
rather distant future is already here. It is the immediate
gxowth of Arizo11a v.'hich will be destroyed if the Boulder
clam act is constitutional.
Los Angeles taxpayers, through their bureau of
and light, are now advertising, hoping to secure an
population to consume the water and power they
expect to take from Arizona. We should advise the world
that opportunities for development in Arizona are even
·better, and that we are not fighting progress, but are
trying to share in the growth of the southwest,
There is no possibility now of securing a fair agree-ment
with California unless the supreme court decides that
a sovereign state controls its own resources, but there nev­er
was such a possibility while California was hopeful of
securing the aid of the federal government to diveTt our
natural wealth for her enrichment.
In case of the improbable attempt to renew nego­tiati,
vns for an agreement among the states, we should
1·eiterate the more than fair policy we submitted to the
governors' conference at Denver in 1927, namely:
That the additional water made available by storage
in the United States be used exclusively on United
States soil.
That Arizona be given her tributaries, where needed,
and an amount of water out of the main stream equal
to that to be received by California.
That Arizona be permitted to continue to tax hydro­electric
lJrojects the same as her other property.
It would be beneficial if the legislature would re­affirm
this policy which has been approved by several
of your predecessors, especially as it would give Cali­fornia
all the water necessary for her legitim~te needs.
It wvuld give her ample water for her cities and provide
irrigation for double the area now watered from the Colo-
1·ado 1·iver. Specifically, I recommend that the legislature
memorialize congress to revoke the action of the secretary
of the interior in withdrawing some 2,000,0,00 acres in
northwestern Arizona on the fictitious plea that this action
contemplates the creation of a recreational area, while
in 1·eality it precludes any other hydro-electric project com­peting
with the Hoover dam.
Thi~ is no time to hesitate or halt. To continue in
the defense of these rights it is necessary that those who
ai·e to carry on the battle be furnished with the munitions
of war. The legislature should make an appropriation to
become available immediately.
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The Attorney General and his legal staff should be
furnished with sufficient funds to properly present this
case to the court. This will call for the gathering of en­gineering
data and the employing of engineering experts
as well as legal assistants.
I also recommend that the legislature make suffi­cient
appropriation immediately to secure the necessary
engineering data needed for evidence and to successfully
prosecute our case in the supreme court.
The executive departments that are under my direc­tion
will give the matter of the Colorado. river their first
consideration.
I am requesting the various members of the judicial
branch of our government to · assist and advise the at­torney
general on all the legal questions that are involved.
I trust the legislature will furnish the funds to finance
our case, and I hope the people of the state will by voice
and pen notify their friends throughout the nation of the
falseness of the propaganda that our enemies have cir­culated,
which unc,onsciously influenced congress and which
might even influence a human court inclined to follow
crystalized public sentiment.
The fight has gone against us thus far only because
of dissension in our own ranks. Let us have peace at ho:ine
that we may present a united front to the enell/-Y· No
united people has ever been defeated and despoiled when
engaged in a just cause. As chief executive of this state,
elected by the people to lead this fight, I am asking all
those who love Arizona to support her in this crisis, be­c,
ause if we do so, we will win and establish a great state,
full of opportunity for ourselves and those who come
after us.
TAXATION
A problem of the first magnitude confronting the
legislature at this session and the solution of which should
receive your thoughtful consideration, is that of taxation.
The plight of the home owner, the small farmer and the
small business man is very acute because of the burden of
excessive taxation that they are carrying.
Taxes are necessary for the support of the gov­ernment
and for accomplishing the legitimate ends for
which it was organized. But when any government by
the use of its power for unnecessary and inadvisable
functions, taxes its people to the extent of a drain of
their 1,;apital, then such a government is sapping the very
foundations of the prosperity of the state and inviting
poverty and disaster. ·
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Arizona is not a lone sufferer from the evils of
taxation. The national government and that of each of
our sister states are grappling with this vital problem.
State functions have increased rapidly during the past
twenty years. An era -of business activity and suc<:ess
brought a high degree of prosperity to the land. The
raising of money for public functions was an easy matter
and was utilized to the full extent by the tax spenders.
Bond issues, general and special, succeeded one another
with a rapidity heretofore unknown in governmental fi­nance.
The general property tax was increased; new
species of property, theretofore overlooked by the tax
gatherer, were swept onto the assessment rolls. Yet the
public expenditures mounted and the demand for more
money was insatiable.
The legislator is the intermediary between the tax­payer
and the tax spender. He holds the purse strings.
The budget, prepared by the tax spender, is based on ex­penditures,
not on the eai·nings of the people or their
ability to pay. The legislatoT comes fresh from the people
and at the close of his campaign where he mingled freely
among those who must pay the taxes. He heaTd them
expTess their v.,ishes and desiTes, and, if his expeTience
was the same as mine, he had an almost unanimous plea
for relief from excessive taxation.
. In the last analysis it should not be forgotten that
all taxes are paid by the people. Even though you fasten
a tax on s,ome one industry or utility expecting it to pay,
this tax is passed on to the users or consumers of the
products of that industry or utility.
It is my earnest desire to cooperate ·with you in the
best efforts that must now be used if we are to relieve
the people of a most burdensome load that is preventing
them from extricating themselves from the depression
that now surrounds them.
I recommend your prompt repeal of the so-called
House Bill 127. The predominating number of victims
from this vicious piece of legislation have been the small
homeowners and the farmers who cultivate only a limited
acreage; those who could least bear the severe penalties of
this heartless legislation.
The interest rates set out in this law are an abomi­nation
to a civilized country. They are relics of a bar­barism
represented by the system of farming out the col­lection
of taxes. This system has been repudiated by
every civilize,d nation on the face of the globe, and ATizona
should quickly undo this wrong that has been perpetrated
upon numbers of its innocent and unfortunate citizens.
A state, composed of individuals obeying the moral law,
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should be a higher moral entity, and should realize and
practice the moral virtues set out in its statutes. If its
laws provide that a rate of interest in excess of ten per
cent in the business transactions of its people is detrimen­tal
and unprincipled, then what shall we say of a state
that inflicts a penalty of twenty-five per cent upon that
class of its people least able to pay even the legal rate?
Let us cooperate to relieve the fair name of Arizona
from the stigma of such an indefensible blot. This mon­strous
interest rate has also introduced into our state a
species of "investor" of which heretofore it has been free,
the tax sale speculator, who has found these rates of in­terest
exceedingly profitable for his purpose.
For the purpose of dealing with the entire state fi­nancial
system, embracing both the state revenues and
expenditures, I recommend the employment of financial
experts to make a survey and recommendations for put­ting
our state needs upon a sound financial basis that will
include a budget that is based on the ability of our people
to pay and not exclusively on the estimate of the tax
spender of what they ought to pay.
Our present system of raising the state revenue is
unscientific, unethical and unfair. The burden on each
species of property is gradually or rapidly incTeasing
until the owners raise a storm of protest, or are able to
shift the burden to another species, where the same pro­cess
continues until there is a general cry of distress, as
there is throughout the state today, or the abandonment
of industries that can no longer stand up under the griev­ou,
s load.
A number of our sister states have adopted this plan
of a survey of their economic abilities and public needs,
and it is my belief that such a survey for Arizona will
prnve beneficial and an equitable system of taxation vvill
prove to be one of the principal attractions that will draw
a desirable class of citizens to dwell among us.
Arizona has more than 113,000 square miles of area,
and less tha::i half a million people. ·with its untouched
natural resources awaiting the vision, the thought and the
energy of the pioneer; its fertile soil and the brnad acres
of its rich valleys in readiness for the application of the
strength and efficacy of the husbandman, all this virgin
,vealth needs only the assurance from the governing pow­ers
of the state that the workers and investors in these
vast fields of activity will not be stripped and left with a
bare means of subsistence as a reward for making a reality
of these vast stores of potential wealth.
Simultaneously with the repeal of House Bill 127,
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provision should be made for an impartial and eomplete
survey by a board of valuation experts, representative of
agriculture, business and industry, in collaboration with
county assessors and county boards of equalization for the
purpose of fairly equalizing valuations.
The functions of the State Tax Commission as a
Board of Equalization should be abolished and provision
Inade for an independent state board of equalization that
shall have final jurisdiction over all valuations.
PRIVATE FINANCING OF THE STATE
I have viewed with gravest concern the practice of
the preceding administration of appealing for loans frmn
private corporations for the financing of state institutions
and activities.
This, by the very nature of the proceeding, implies
an unsafe and illegitimate -obligation on the part of the
administration toward the lender. It amounts to subsi­dization
of government by private interests. It constitutes
a serious threat to the continuance of responsible and rep­resentative
government.
In the instance referred to, the consummation of
the loans was made possible throug.h the aversion of the
lenders to the calling -of a special session of the legislature
to consider emergencies. Such a situation, wherein large
corporations are willing to advance great sums of money
to the executive department rather than that a special ses­sion
of the legislature be called, contains sinister elements.
In such emergencies, the chief executive has two
recourses. He can resort to the constitutional power to
make an emergency appropriation. I used this authority
during my previous administrations, as when appropTia­tions
were made by executive proclamation to combat the
scabies and the hoof and mouth disease. Or the governor
can call a special session of the legislature to consider the
emergency and provide relief, if in his judgment such a
course is justified.
In this case I shall approve reimbursement by the
legislature of funds advanced by the lenders, in order
that the good faith and credit of the state may remain un­impaired.
However, I recommend the enactment of leg;is­lation
making the acceptance of such private and unau­thorized
loans by future administrations sufficient grounds
fo1· the impeachment of the chief executive or othe1· state
officer responsible for such action.
ELECTION LAWS
The Primary and General Election laws of Arizona
need revision.
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I do not favor legislation which will in any way re­strict
or hamper the exercise of the franchise by our
citizens, nor do I believe that elections can be entirely
purified by legislative enactment. Fads, fancies and
theories have found expression in previous legislative acts
of this nature, most of which have subsequently been re­pealed
by the legislature.
H0wever, the late elections in Arizona again dem­onstrated
that only sixty or seventy per cent of registered
voters are sufficiently interested in their franchise to
cause them to go to the polls on election day.
Yet, all these voters ·were registered at great ex­pense
to the several counties, usually at the rate of twenty
cents per name, paid to special registration agents.
I hold that an electoT who is not sufficiently con­cerned
in good government to cause him to register with
the regular officers charged vvith such duty and to vote
on election day, would probably vote ·wrong in any event.
The excessive cajolery, flattery and solicitation to
which voters are subjected by party Tepresentatives and
candidates, during the campaigns and on election day,
should be resented by the voters themselves.
Undue . and disproportionate activity of party work­ers
and candidates on election day, particularly surrounding
the polls, have become a nuisance.
I suggest your consideration of amendments to the
election laws abolishing the payment of per capita fees
to special registration agents by the counties, and pro­viding
that registration of voters shall be done by the
staffs of the county recorders and the various justices
of the peace.
I further recommend an amendment prohibiting all
election activity by party workers, candidates or their rep­resentatives
on election day.
Registration of members of one political party as
members of another party, in order to participate in the
latter's primaries for the nomination of the weakest can­didate,
is unfair and illegitimate.
Electors should be given every encouragement to
participate in the primaries of their own parties. A prac­tice
has developed in this state of a pclitical party not
naming candidates for certain offices in the primary elec­tion.
The filling of the ticket is left to the party commit­teemen
after the primaries. This is not representative
government. It subverts the purpose of our primary laws.
It is an evasion of the intent of the framers of these stat­utes.
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Under the present practice, the very law that cre­ates
the primaries. frequently nullifies their purpose ..
In view of these considerations, I recommend the en­actment
of legislation providing that when a candidate foJr
office receives a majority of all votes cast at a primary
election, he shall be declared elected.
STATE BANKS
The recent financial depression, with consequent
bank failures involving serious losses to depositors, has
dernonstrated the necessity for some sort of protection to,
the public in addition to that already provided by law.
I recommend for the serious consideration of this
state legislature the enactinent of a law which will pro­vide
greater protection to depositors.
The experience of the last few years with bank
failures in Arizona has been so disastrous, that I feel that
the time has come when depositors who place their money
in banks should have some kind of a guaranty, the same as
city, county, or state deposits are protected. I suggest that
when a bank has deposits of a hundred thousand dollars
they should secure deposits by a bond of half that amount.
In that way only can people be guaranteed the safety of
their deposits. I trust that you will take action on this
matter in such a manner that the man who puts his money
in a bank for safekeeping shall be assured that when the
time comes to withdraw it, he can do so.
I hope a plan for the safeguarding of deposits can
be vrorked, out along new lines that will avoid the fallacies
demonstrated by the operations of depositors' guarantee
laws enacted in other states.
The following additional recommendations of changes
and additions with respect to our present banking code are
made with the sole idea in mind of giving added protec­tion
to the depositing public.
In liquidation of banks it is found ,one of the most
difficult items to collect is double liability due from stock­holders.
To offset this it is suggested that the minimum
capitalization of banks be raised from $25,000 to $100,000.
Any c.ommunity needing banking facilities that can not
raise $100,000 of capital stock could avail itself of oppor­tunities
of branch banking under our present statutes.
To guarantee the collection of the double liability
of stockholders, it is recommended that 200 per cent
should be paid in on capital stock at the time of organiza­tion,
one-half of which should be invested in government
or municipal bonds, which bonds should be deposited with
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the State Banking Department or State Treasurer; with
the provision that these bonds should never be sold or
hypothecated except on approval of the Superintendent of
Banks, and then only for replacement purposes in case of
maturity of some issue.
A further provision should be made that these se­curities
are specifically deposited for the purpose of pay-ing
the double liability of stockholders in case of liquida­tion
·Of the bank. The income of bonds or securities would
be the property of a bank as long as it is operating as
such.
Our statutes should provide that at all times there
should be a minimum of five active directors of each bank.
To further emphasize the fact that the directors are to
direct, there should be placed geographical limitations on
their selection so that attendance may be regulated. vVhere
the attendance of a director is irregular over a period of
six months, his office should be declared vacant by the
stockholders and a replacement made.
It should be made a clear violation of the law for
a banker to acquire any kind of a second mortgage un­less
it be taken to further secure a debt previously con­tracted.
It is strongly recommended that Arizona adopt a
code clearly segragating savings deposits from commercial
depositf, where a bank maintains both departments. We
have a law at this time regulating the investments of sav­ings
banks, which appears to be adequate. However, there
is no provision to make this applicable to one corporation
maintaining both departments. This can and should be
done.
It is recommended that the penalties foT violations
of various provisions of the banking statutes be made
more severe with reference to officers and directors and
both classes should be equally included.
BANK TAXATION
Under our present laws it is. claimed that increas­ing
amounts of real estate, business and residential prop­erty
aTe escaping taxation through passing of title to
banking institutions.
Real estate and business structures and equipment
which are used exclusively for bank administration
purposes may well have exemption from direct taxation,
as these are reached through the valuation placed upon
their capital stock and surplus. However, it was clearly
not the intention of previous lawmakers that considerable
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amounts of agricultural, business and residential property,
not used or intended for banking purposes, should -disap­pear
from the tax rolls simply through the act of passing·
into bank ownership, by foreclosure or purchase. This con­
·dihon results in practical exemption for much valuable
property, and the burden of taxation is correspondingly in­creased
op. other classes of property not enjoying such
exemption. The blame for this condition undoubtedly lies
with those officials charged with fixing assessments for
taxation purposes, in many instances.
I therefore urge the passage of an amendment to
the present banking laws, clarifying these statutes, and
which will insure that all property owned by banking in­stitutions
not used for administrative purposes, shall be
taxed in accordance with the principles which apply to
ordinary property.
OVERDRAFTS
Banks should be prohibited by statute from permit­ting
an overdraft in any form to anybody. If the depositor
is entitled to this consideration, he should sign a note
and secure the line of credit, thereby giving the bank an
income on the credit extended, to which it is justly en­titled.
Examinations of the records of defunct banks in Ari­zona
have revealed frequently that overdrafts of depositors
had been allowed by the banks' officers.
This practice is particularly reprehensible where the
person making such overdraft is a public official exer­cising
jurisdiction over the affairs of banks ..
Such practices inevitably lead to lack of confidence
on the part of the public in the probity of such officials
and the integrity of the bank's officers.
In some instances overdrafts have been contributory
causes in the failure of banks, with consequent loss to de­positors.
Our state has laws applicable to depositors who
overdraw their accounts, but they have not proved a suf­ficient
deterrent to the evil of ,overdrafts.
I therefore urge an amendment to the banking laws
making it a misdemeanor for Tesponsible officers of Ari­zona
banks to allow or honor overdrafts.
LEGAL RATE OF INTEREST
The legal rate of interest should be modified to cone
form to the trend of modern times.
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Conditions common to pioneering communities which
formerly may have rendered necessary a legal rate of in­terest
of ten per cent, no longer exist in Arizona. Such
a high rate of interest has been abandoned for more
moderate charges by most of our financial institutions. It
exists only in isolated instances. A ten per cent Tate is
now Tecognized as excessive and unjustifiable. It places
a handicap on business enterprise and an excessive burden
on individual and corporate initiative.
The fees collected with reference to loans should be
construed as interest in interpreting the law relating to
usury.
I urge the amendmettt of our statutes to prevent the
charging of more than eight per cent interest on loans,
this rate to include all fees of whatever nature, which have
been used in the past by certain classes of individuals and
firms to exact exhorbitant rates from borrowers for the
use of money.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS
The following are a few of the imp,ortant changes
recommended and apparently needed with reference to op­eration
of building and loan associations:
All building and loan associations incorporated with­in
the state should be required to pay in a minimum of
$50,000 capital stock before permit is issued, unless the
association is to operate as a strictly mutual.
The most objectionable features in our law at this
time regarding building and loan associations are the
heavy monetary penalties and time element 011 withdrawal
from the association by depositors. ·
It is recommended that a maximum of one per cent
on a $1,0.00.00 maturity v:aluation be allowed the asso­ciation
as a membership fee chargeable ag·ainst the mem­ber.
While it is in my thought that building and loan as­sociations
should not repay deposits on demand, due to
the type of investment they necessarily have to make,
yet when a member is forced by adverse circumstances or
other valid reasons to discontinue payment of deposits,
he should not be renalized further than the above men­tioned
one per cent on a reasonable time of withdrawal.
Building and loan associations form a verv neces­sary
link in our economic structure, yet extre;ne care
should be exercised in our legislature to keep them from
active competition with commercial and savings banks.
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Their activity should be more in the nature of cooperating
and coordinating with banks.
The statutes should provide for the accumulation
of a substantial reserve against the repayment of certifi­cates
that mature in the future, so that the association
will never find itself embarassed to take ca1·e of the legiti­mate
demands made upon it.
Utmost care should be exercised in placing the max­imum
restriction on the activities of the officers and di­rectors
and providing adequate penalties for derelictions.
SMALL LOANS
It is recommended that the statute be amended to
place small loan companies under the supervision of the
State Banking Department, and to further regulate the
rate of interest downward.
In placing these companies under the banking de­partment
it should be kept in mind that this will mean
an increase in personnel as well as appropriation for the
department.
OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES
The miner who contracts tuberculosis is as much a
victim of industry as the employe who suffers injury from
accident. I urge the enactment of an amendment to the
Arizona Industrial Act providing compensation for diseases
that are clearly occupational when they arise from or are
aggravated by employment in the state ,of Arizona.
A careful study of the Industrial Act in the light of
the experience of the several years of administration that
have passed since its enactment should be made by this
session of the legislature, and provision made for the coT­rection
in the law aDd ib administr::ttion of any defects
that have become apparent.
FREEDOM OF SELECTION OF DOCTORS
It is a generally recognized fact that confidence of
the patient in the ability of his doctor, is an important
factor in the cure of disease or the treatment of injuTies.
The State Industrial Act should be so amended that
there shall be no interference with the right of the person
claiming compensation to select the doctor of his choice for
his own treatment. There should be only the qualification
that the practitioner shall be regularly licensed and be rea­sonably
accessibie to the patient.
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Large areas of Arizona lands remain untenanted and
unappropriated, the title still lying in the federal govern-
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ment. These lands pay no taxes toward the support of
local or state government. Their administration by distant
bureaus in Washington has been unsatisfactory to our citi­zens.
Frequent complaints of unsympathetic treatment of
settlers and prospectors, and of policies of administration
based on ignorance of local conditions, are heard.
I urge upon the present state legislature the adop­tion
of a memorial to congress, petitioning the transfer by
the government to the states of title to all unappropriated
public domain within their borders, including minerals and
oiL This, I hold, is in harmony with the constitutional
guarantee that all states shall enter the union ,on an equal
basis, which has been recognized by the passage to private
ownership of the lands of the older states of the union.
FEDERAL ENCROACHMENTS
I have viewed with gravest concern the continued
efforts of federal departments and bureaus to encroach
upon the jurisdiction and sovereignty of th.e state, · and
the lack of steadfast resistance to such inroads upon our
state rights by the previous administration.
I wish to warn this legislature against this increas­ing
menace to state sovereignty, and against the enact­ment
of any statutes which will establish a dangerous
precedent for any further surrender of the jurisdiction of
the state to any federal department or bureau.
Any attempted legislation, no matter how worthy
the purpose, which involves a further surrender of Ari­zornc's
sovereignty along these lines will receive my prompt
veto.
COOPERATIVE MARKETING
Revision of the statute governing cooperative mar­keting
should be made wherever recommended by the farm­ing
and livestock industries of the state, consistent with
fairness to the public, to the end that our laws shall as­sist
the agriculturist and stockraiser in every way to a
solution of theiT marketing problems.
TIDEWATER PORT
Arizona can not reach her maximum degree of eco­nomic
stabilization without being permitted access to a port
on the Gulf of California.
Existing geographic relationships emphasize Ari­zona's
nearness to tidewater. Her southwestern boundary
lies approximately parallel for two hundred miles to the
northeast meander line of the Gulf and at a minimum
distance of sixty miles therefrom.
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This near proximity to tidewater, plus the
graphic slope thereto of :rractically the whole State of
zona, vitalizes the economic necessity of not alone foilovv­ing
the shortest route, but likewise nature's line of least
gravitational resistance.
It is axiomatic that transportation rates of an in­terior
point are based on its distance from a tidewater
port. Phoenix, for example, lies in rail miles-439 and 12:55,
respectively, from San Pedro on the west and Corpus
Christi on the east-and only about 207 rail miles from
Rocky Point Harbor. It is a certainty that existing freig·ht
rates on the major portion of Arizona's outbound and in­bound
tonnage would be greatly reduced by securing access
to the sea.
Article Four of the Gadsden Treaty permits Ari­zona's
freight tonnag·e to flow to the Gulf via the Colo­rado
Riverroute. That vital transportation right will have
to be transferred from the wet to the dry status when the
total waters of the Colorado are impounded. In lieu of
this existing right to access to tidewater, it is hoped to se­cure
access to the Gulf by another route, preferably on a
line directed toward Rocky Point Harbor.
I shall use my best endeavor to secure this exchang·e
route privilege from our sister republic.
I urge the adoption by this legislature of a meni.­orial
directed to the Congress of the United States, re­questing
the initiating of negotiations by the Department
·Of State with the Republic of Mexico for a port privilege
on the Gulf of Mexico and a connecting railway thereto.
LAST MIINUTE LEGISLATION
One of the serious problems confronting our legisla­tive
system is the rush of last minute bills during the clos­ing
hours or days of the session. I have watched for
many years the unfortunate results accruing to the state
from hasty and ill-considered bills passed during· the clos­ing
hours of the legislative sessions. With the present
sixty-day limitation on the session, it appears impossible
that the great mass of bills introduced can be carefully and
intelligently considered and acted upon within the time
limitation.
A mass of bills is enacted and dumped upon the
Governor's desk at the closing of the session. Checking
and investigation in the executive office reveal that in
the haste for passage these measures frequently are faulty
in construction. A bill may cover a need of the state. The
executive office has no power to make any changes what­soever
after it has passed the legislature. Thus, the ex-
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ecutive has the alternative of accepting a faulty bill, or
vetoing it.
Time and opportunity for careful and detailed study
of proposed legislative measures will frequently expose
faults or objections which are not detected by a cursory
or hasty examination. Occasionally it happens that the
enadment of a single ill-considered measure will prove
more expensive to the state and the taxpayers than a
whole session of tlce state legislat1ue. I refer to House
Bill No. 127, enacted by the preceding state legislature, as
a measure of this type.
Had more time been given by the legislature. to the
study of the. effects of this bill, and to an examination of
its intents and purposes by interested citizens of the state,
I am sure it never would have passed this body in its pres­ent
form.
A solution of the problem of hasty and "last min­ute"
legislation presents difficulties involving an amend­ment
to our state constitution. Various plans have been
suggested. One is that members of the state legislature
be paid an annual salary, and that the sixty-day limita­tion
of pay be removed. Advocates of this plan argue that
the legislature could convene and remain in deliberate
session so long as the business of the state demanded.
Another plan that has been suggested is that the
legislature convene for thirty days to permit the introduc­tion
of bills. No legislation would be adopted at this ses­sion,
except of an emergency character.
At the conclusion of the thirty-day period, the legis­lature
would adjourn for thirty or sixty days to permit
committees to consider bills, to hold hearings, and to give
the c'itizens of the state ample opportunity to analyze and
study all proposed legislation.
At the conclusion of this second period, the legisla­ture
would again convene, to act upon measures intro­duced
at the initial session. Only emergency measures
could be introduced at this final sitting.
These are merely suggestions. I am not advocating
either or any specific plan. However, I do urge upon
the legislative body the serious consideration of the prob­lem
presented by hastily enacted legislation. It is my
hope that a satisfactory solution may be found.
OLD AGE PENSIONS
I am a firm believer in the principle that pioneer
-citizens of our state, who have an honorable record in the
upbuilding. of our commonwealth, and who find themselves
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in need in their declining years, should have the sympa­thetic
aid of the state.
The State Pioneers' Home is a recognition of this
principle on the part of our people. It neither meets the
need fully nor satisfactorily. Experience has demonstrated
that the interest of the state and of the beneficiaries of
our solicitude, in most cases would be best served were
these pioneers allowed a direct pension from the state.
Needless to say, in drafting legislation along this
line, care must be taken that only the deserving and actu­ally
needy aged citizens shall receive such pensions.
Legislation to this end will be submitted for your
earnest and sympathetic consideration, later iri the session.
HIGHWAY LEGISLATION
In the matter of additional legislation for financing
the State Highway Department, which the Tenth session
may in their judgment adopt, I recommend the following
needed new construction for the development and expan­sion
of our state highway system be borne in mind:
A road north in W[ohave County, and a bridge across
the Colorado River at or near Pierce's Ferry to connect
with the Arrowhead trail in the vicinity of St. George,
Utah.
A road from the Big Sandy to Congress Junction to
connect with the highway into the Salt River Valley.
Provision for the early completion of the oiling of
the northern route from Topock to the New Mexico boun­dary.
The opening of negotiations with California and
the United States Indian Set'vice for the construction of
a free bridge across the Colorado River at Parker.
The construction of a highway to Ryolite National
1\/fonument in Cochise County.
A road through the Arivaca and San Pedro Valleys
to connect "1Nith the higlnvay at V'i.nkelman.
Cooperation by the state in every feasible way to
obtain the prompt completion of the important north and
south highway from Pleasant Valley to Heber and Hol­brook.
The same recommendation is made with respect to
the new north and south highway from Flagstaff to Utah
by way of the new bridge over the Colorado River at Marc
ble Canyon.
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Prompt construction of the links in the east and
west highway between Wickenburg and E-hrenbe";;;" and
from Globe to Springerville.
If the iniquitous Boulder Dam bill should be de­clared
constitutional by the Supreme Court, I recommend
to the legislature that a r,oad be constructed from Chloride
to the dam.
CONSOLIDATION OF DEPARTMENTS
I urge upon this legislature the importance of a
careful survey of the state's business organization for the
purpose of bringing about a more simplified structure of
government.
This survey should be made with special attention to
the possibilities for consolidation of departments and the
elimination of unnecessary divisions to the end that dupli­cation
and overlapping of work may be avoided. Long
observation and experience have convinced me that the
cost of state government can be materially reduced and
efficiency greatly increased through consolidation of de­partments,
under a responsible head, along lines which
would be adopted by any well managed business institu­tion.
I regard this field as one of the most promising in
which to accomplish that economy in governmental opera­tion
to which the Democratic party is pledged.
The legal business of all departments of the state
government should be consolidated in the office of the
Attorney General, where it rightfully belongs. This ap­plies
particularly to the legal departments now maintained
by the state highway department, and the state banking
department in the cases of defunct banks. Great econ­omies
and increased efficiency can be obtained by such
action.
I recommend that, in the interest of economy and
efficient operation, legal representation of all departments
of the state be consolidated in the Attorney General's
office.
This can be brought about by giving to the Attor­ney
General the authority to employ a sufficient number
of assistants to properly perform the duties required.
Consolidation of departments and activities, with in­creased
economy and more efficient service to the public,
appear to be particularly needed in the agricultural, horti­cultural
and health divisions of the state government.
ABOLITION OF COMMISSIONS
I would like to see a simplified and representative
form of government created f.or the service of the people
of Arizona.
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I have deplored the tendency to create commissions
for the discharge of governmental functions.
Experience has shown that the commission form of
government in this state is impractical, unresponsive to
public opinion, undemocratic, wasteful and inefficient. It
has accentuated rather than alleviated the political ad­ministration
of departments of the state government.
Commissions appointed for long terms of office invariably
drift into bureaucratic policies and procedures. They are
clearly responsible neither to the administration nor to the
electorate. They add heavily to the cost of government
while decreasing the efficiency of operation. This is no
reflection on the individuals comprising such commissions.
The fault lies in the system.
In this respect, I rec,ommend that the present High­way
Commission be abolished, and in lieu thereof one com­missioner
be appointed, who will have charge of the high­way
department. The present commission is cumbersome,
and while the personnel is composed of very high class
men, I feel that the state should run its business along
the lines that some of our successful corporations are
doing.
If the legislature does not feel disposed to follow
this suggestion, as a second request, I propose that the
state be divided into three zones, Northern, Central and
Southern, with one commissioner to represent each zone.
In that manner, economy and higher efficiency would
result.
In regard to the State Game Commission, I rec­ommend
that it be abolished. From observation and from
a great many letters from people who are interested in
game protection and the preservation of wild life, I have
come to the conclusion that it has been a dismal failure.
The idea behind the establishment of the game commis­sion
was further to preserve and protect wild life. The·
results strike me as having been the opposite.
Preferably the operation of these departments.
should be entrusted to a single administrative head, ap­pointed
by and responsible to the governor. The powers;
and authority vested in these commissions should be placed
in the executive department, which will then be responsi­ble
for their administration.
I trust that the legislature will take immediate ac­tion
on this request.
EFFICIENT GOVERNIMENT
Our fathers separated the functions of government.
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This was a means, safe on one hand from the individual
tyrant and from the dissipation of authority that could
not be handled by the multitude on the other hand. Yet
the final control over all was in the people at the ballot
box. This plan, so wise in conception and so efficient in
execution, was adopted successively by all the states, and
for more than a century and a quarter was the successful
governmental standard of the American people.
During later years an innovation has gradually
crept in and even threatens to usurp unto itself the three
attributes of governmental administration that experience
has demonstrated should be kept separate. I refer to gov­ernment
by commissions. These organs have gathered to
themselves legislative and executive functions and to some
extent . they are beyond judicial control. The heads of
these commissions are elected or appointed for long terms.
of office. Experience has shown that officials chosen for
long terms tend to lose touch with the people and render
a service that is more or less dictatorial.
In our state both the governor and members of the
legislature are chosen for two year terms. Our commis­sioners
have six year terms. This innovation is grad­ually
dissipating responsible government, and a rem­edy
should be applied before this dissipation has entirely
swept away our government of responsible units exercising
a limited jurisdiction for a short term of office.
I call your attention to the inroads on the executive·
power that have been made in the past. So many of the
executive functions have been delegated to commissions
that this department has practically lost its control of the
administration of the law. Much of the great cost of gov­ernment
in Arizona is due to the dissipation of this author­ity
and placing it in the hands of expensive commissions.
The time has arrived when each of the great depart­ments
of the state government, be it legislative, executive
or judicial, should be given control of the functions per­taining
to it. By this means responsibility can be fixed
and resulting efficiency secured. Governmental functions
in Arizona have bec-ome so scattered and mixed that the
public is no longer able to place responsibility or to deter­mine
what departments are carrying out the purposes for
which they exist and which are not.
In this connection I wish to call to your attention.
the rearrangement of offices and functi,ons that has been.
adopted in some of our sister states. The purposes of
these plans are to secure more efficiency and responsibil­ity
at a morn economical cost. It is my belief that the
peak of tax collections for governmental purposes has been
reached, and that any additional inroads on the income of
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the people for governmental expenditures will not only de­stroy
the maximum income productivity of our people, but
will tend to discourage effective effort.
I recommend that you make a careful study of the
governmental situation in Arizona to the end that dissipa­tion
and usurpation of power above referred to may be
remedied and the state government be again pleaced on
the solid foundation provided for it in the Constitution of
our State. I think the recent reforms adopted by the
states of New York and Illinois may be of both interest
and help to you. ·
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS
The increasing number of automobile accidents, fatal
and otherwise, constitutes a serious and vexatious problem.
This is true because the human element enters so largely
into the situation. It is difficult to make people careful
by legislative enactment.
If, in the opinion of the legislature, the number of
automobile accidents can be reduced through the enact­ment
of further safety and precautionary legislation, then
the subject should have your earnest consideration.
THE EGG INSPECTION LAW
House Bill No. 70, the so-called egg inspechon law
enacted by the Ninth state legislature, should be repealed.
This law, while adding to the expense and labor of
the state government, has served no useful purpose.
On. the contrary it has benefitted only the middle­men.
It has generally resulted in smaller prices for their
product to egg producers and higher prices to consumers.
Like all unnecessary legislation, it has developed
vicious phases and shoul,d be repealed.
WILD ANIMAL LIFE
With the advent of the automobile, improved re­peating
and automatic firearms and scores of roads. inter­secting
its ancient domain, the last remaining wild life of
America is on the defensive, with its back, so to speak,
against some mountain fastness, or desert waste. Year
by year the hunters multiply as the game vanishes, and
the persistent hunters continue the pursuit into the few
remaning fastnesses where this wild life has taken a pre­carious
refuge.
Arizona constitutes one of the few remaining areas
where many noble species of our vanishing wild life may
be found in considerable numbers. Until very recently it
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was the accepted doctrine that the wild life of a state was
its property, that it was entirely within the province of
the legislature to make such' rules and regulations as it
deemed expedient for the preservation of this wild life and
for the taking thereof by the citizens. All the states of the
Union have game laws passed for the purpose of insuring
a continuation of this wild life. Chief among the pro­visions
of such laws is the establishment of closed seasons
and bag limits for the purpose of leaving a sufficient num­ber
of individuals to propagate and multiply the species.
Due to the sparse settlement of its area, Arizona re­tains
many species of wild life dwelling in the original
habitat. The great majority of the species possess value
as game animals and birds and as interesting attractions
to the inhabitants of this state and to those who come
within our borders for recreation and pleasure.
I am not in accord with the annual wholesale
slaughter of deer that occurs every fall in the Kaibab.
Probably the largest remaning herd of deer on the Amer­ican
continent makes its home in that forest. With hun­ters
coming fr.om far and near to engage in an annual
carnage only one degree higher than the slaughter of
cattle in a corral, it will not be long before this mighty
herd will follow the buffalo into the shadows and its exis­tence
remain only as a memory.
Under the decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States relating to killing deer on this game pr.e­serve,
power is not conferred upon the federal government
to license hunters to kill these deer. At the present time
hunters are permitted by the state to kill deer on this
reserve in excess of that permitted by the state game
laws. For the reason stated above, I am opposed to this
reprehensible practice.
The dangerous precedent has been established by
our game department oi' recognizing co-ownership of the
felderal government with the state in our wild life. This
may lead to claims of equal, or even superior rights of the
federal bureaus in other natural resources of our state.
I warn the legislature against any enactments which
may further weaken the position of our state in this par­ticular.
BOARD OF PARDONS AND PAROLES
Under the existing laws of the State of Arizona,
the Board of Pardons and Paroles is composed of the Su­perintendent
of Public Instruction, the Attorney General,
and a citizen member appointed by these two elective of­ficers.
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Due to the rapid growth in prison population, and
the increasing duties of this Board which these public
officials are compelled to perform in addition to the many
other duties of their offices, I recommend that the law be
changed to form a Board composed of three civilian mem­bers,
to be appointed by the Governor, who would have
sufficient time to thoroughly investigate the requests for
pardons and paroles and to carry on the many other duties
imposed upon the Board.
The work of the Board of Pardons and Paroles has
increased manyfold. It is especially heavy at this time of
depression. Sufficient :funds should be appropriated to
take care of its needs. The amount the Board is now
working with is wholly inadequate.
While it seems to be the will of the people of Ari­zona
that we have capital punishment, I suggest a care­ful
investigation be made by the legislature to find a
means to enact the death penalty less barbarous and re­volting
than the one used at present.
SEGREGATION OF THE YOUNG FROM OLD OFFENDERS
AT THE STATE PRISON
Crime and delinquency are rampant in the nation.
A nation-wide inquiry has been directed to this distressing
condition. Arizona can immediately take one definite step
forward in the amelioration of this condition without
great cost.
To send boys and first offenders to the State Prison
to mingle with the old and hardened criminals is tanta­mount
to plunging them into debasement from which they
can seldom be redeemed. Yet this is still the practice in
Arizona.
I recommend that the present prison walls be ex­tended
into another and separate yard so that a proper
segregation can be put into effect. This improvement will
also relieve the evil effects of overcrowding now existent
at the prison.
Thrnugh the utilization of prison labor and construc­tion
of necessary buildings of adobe brick, made by the
prisoners, this extension and improvement at the State­Prison
can be carried out at comparatively small expense.,
An appropriation to cover necessary building materials
other than adobe and stone is all that would be required.
I recommend that such an appropriation be made by
the Tenth State Legislature.
STATE CEMENT PLANT
I am renewing my previous recommendations to the
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Arizona Legislature for the establishment of a State Ce­ment
Plant utilizing surplus prison labor.
Although Arizona has extensive deposits of suitable
natural material for making cement, contiguous to both
Tail and highway transportation, no cement is manufac­tured
in our state. Freight transportation from California
and Texas, which are the present chief sources of supply,
constitutes a large proportion of the cost of cement used
in public and private construction.
The hope that the larger cement manufactories
would establish branch plants in Arizona, utilizing Arizona
materials and Arizona labor and saving to our consumers
much of the freight cost on the material, has been held out
for several years, but it has failed of realization.
The combination of the surplus prison labor at the
State Penitentiary and the plenteous supplies of excellent
raw materials for cement manufacture should be author­ized
and provided for by the State Legislature. I am con­vinced
that great economies can thus be effected in the
hard surfacing of highways and streets and in the con­struction
of public buildings in Arizona.
STATE MILITIA
The Ninth Legislature saw fit to make an appropri­ation
of approximately $209,000 for the Arizona National
Guard, for the past two years, a large part of which was
for new armory construction.
The appropriation for the State Militia should be
greatly reduced for the next two years in view of the
heavy burden now resting upon our taxpayers.
The Governor is commander-in-chief of the state
militia establishment. As such he is entitled to the ap­pointment
of his chief of staff, who is the Adjutant Gen­eral.
The Ninth legislature amended the law, making the
appointment of the Adjutant General for a six year term.
This is cleady an infringement upon the power and au­thority
of the governor as commander-in-chief of the state
military forces. I doubt the constitutionality of this en­actment.
I recommend that the law be restored to its origi­nal
status, making the term of office of Adjutant General
coterminous with that of the chief executive of the state.
NOTARIES PUBLIC
I recommend that the law covering the issuance of
commissions to notaries public, be amended to place this
work entirely within the office of the Secretary of State.
At present there is a duplication of work in this
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connection in the office of the Governor amll the Secre­tary
of State, which should be avoided in the mterests of
economy and efficiency.
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
There are more than five hundred registered phar­macists
in Arizona, yet our University is not prepared to
teach this profession.
I recommend that in the consideration of building
plans and appropriations for the University of Arizona,
provisions be made for a department of chemistry, which
will provide instruction in the profession of pharmacy at
the State University. The large number of high school
graduates desiring this course of instruction should not be
compelled to go outside the state to obtain their degree in
pharmacy.
LIVE STOCK LEGISLATION
New legislation is needed to remedy defects in the
live stock laws. The industry is suffering from great
losses occasioned by thefts.
Good highways and the development of motor truck
transportation have made the illegal slaughtering and
marketing of range stock comparatively easy. A revision
of the law is needed to cover the transportation of live
stock both on foot and dressed, in order that adequate
protection may be afforded our live stock industry.
Appr,oximately 14,000 cattle brands are now on
record in the office of the Live Stock Sanitary Board. A
large proportion of these brands is obsolete. It is a mat­ter
of great difficulty for our cattle growers to devise new
and distinctive brands which do not conflict with those
now on record.
I recommend the authorization by the Tenth Legis­lature
of a new period for the re-recording of live stock
brands in order to clarify this situation.
THE PINK BOLL WORM
The fight to eradicate the pink boll worm infesta­tion
in the Salt River Valley during the past year involved
an expenditure of more than $600,000·, including reimburse­ment
of farmers, in the non-cotton zone which was estab­lished.
The state will be called ~pon to stand one-half of
this expense, the federal government paying the remain­ing
half.
We are now advised that the federal government
will not proceed in the allocation of any further funds
for the control of the pink boll worm in Arizona.
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This situation must be faced squarely. The with­drawal
of the federal government from the fight to con­trol
the pink boll worm is actuated by the conviction that
further expenditure of funds along these lines is futile.
The boll worm has won the fight. Despite the enormous
exper,diture of state and federal money the pest has spread
practically throughout the cotton growing areas of the
Salt River Valley.
I am advised by federal and state inspectors that the
pest has also appeared in the Casa Grande, Coolidge and
Gila Valley districts, leaving only the Yuma districts free
from the infestation. Under the circumstances and the
apparent hopelessness of the fight, I do not recommend
the further appropriation of state funds in this endeavor.
It is recommended that the burden of continuing the
fight against the pink boll worm in this state be placed
upon those individuals or concerns who desire to continue
the cultivation of the staple. Legislation to require cotton
growers to follow. proper quarantine regulations for the
c,ontrol of the pink boll worm should be enacted at this
session.
In my opm10n the sooner the cotton growers of Ari­zona
turn to diversified farming, the better it will be for
themselves and for the state.
DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND SCHOOL
The school for deaf, dumb and blind at Tucson has
suffered a period of neglect and mismanagement during
the past two ;years. Fm0 a time the sclrool was closed and
the unfortunate children were returned to their homes.
I recommend that this institution be placed in
charge of the Secretary of the Board of Directors of State
Institutions.
If investigation reveals that an emergency appro­priation
is necessary. to carry on the work in this school,
it should be promptly made by the legislature.
WM. BOYCE THOMPSON
Through the death during the past year of Wm.
Boyce Thompson, the State of Arizona lost one of its bene­factors.
By his generosity the Thompson Arboretum near
Superior, was endowed and its continuous operation made
possible.
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This institution is performing a vital work in ex­perimentation
and research to find new and wider uses
for the native vegetation of the southwest.
A suitable memorial of appreciation of the gift of
Wm. Boyce Thompson, and of condolences to his fainily
on account of his death, should be adopted at this session
of the legislature.
LOIS GRUNOW MEMORIAL CLINIC
The State of Arizona is particularly fortunate in
obtaining the Lois Grunow Memorial Clinic at Phoenix.
This institution of medical service and research will
fill an important and useful function in the tTeatment of
the diseased and afflicted, not only in our own state but
throughout the entire southwest.
The establishment of this clinic was made possible
through the generosity of Mr. Wm. C. Grunow.
I believe that the legislature of Arizona, through a
memorial of appreciation, should recognize the splendid
service to the state which Mr. Grunow has performed.
Motion by Mr. Coxon, seconded by Mr. Malony that a rising
vote of thanks be extended to the Governor in appreciation of his
message. Carried.
Motion by Mr. McQuillan, seconded by Mrs. Bush, that the
joint session of the Legislature be dissolved. Carried, and at 3:01
o'clock p. m., the joint session was dissolved.
FRED SUTTER,
President of the Senate.
ATTEST: LALLAH RUTH,
Chief Clerk.
At 3:08 o'clock p. m., Mr. Speaker called the House to order.
Motion by Mr. Loveless, seconded by Mr. Coxon that a Patron­age
Committee of three be appointed.
Motion by Mrs. Bush, seconded by Mr. Barnette, that the
motion of Mr. Loveless be amended, and that a Patronage Committee
of nine members be appointed. Carried, and Mr. Speaker appointed
members Loveless, Coxon, Bohlinger, Witt, Porter, Jones, Rapp, Rig­ney,
and Bevan as such a committee.
Motion by Mr. Decker, seconded by Miss Jones, that the
Patronage Committee be instructed to limit the number of attaches.
to sixty-seven.
Motion by Mr. Malony, seconded by Mr. Coxon that the mo­tion
by Mr. Decker be laid on the table. Carried by the following'"
vote:
JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE 47
Ayes: Adams, Baker, Barnette, Benham, Bevan, Bohlinge1',
:Bone, Callahan, Coxon, Cowperthwaite, Cureton, Doan, Francis, Hin­ton,
R. Jennings, Johnson, Johnson, Kelley, Leeper, Lewis, Lines,
Loveless, Malony, Marine, Merrill, McCormick, McQuillan O,xsheer,
Patton, Penny, Phillips, Rapp, Reddington, Richards, Rigney, Riggs,
Rosenbaum, Smith, Spear, Surber, Tway, Udall, Van Petten, Walters,
Walton, Witt, Wiggins, Mr. Speaker-48.
Nays: Bush, Cavness, Decker, DuRoss, Flake, J. F. Jennings,
Jones, McKee, Peck, Porter, Sayers, Valentine, Wieden-13.
Absent: Ashcroft-!.
Excused: Stewart-I.
FIRST READING OF BILLS
The following resolution was read the first time in full as.
iollows:
"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 1,
by Mr. Hannon of Greenlee, A concurrent resolution ex­pressing
the fealty and loyal support of the Tenth Legis­lature
of the State of Arizona, to Honorable George W.
P. Hunt, Governor of Arizona.
WHERAS, in full appreciation of the honesty of
purpose, the integrity of endeavor and the unswerving
Democracy of the Honorable George W. P. Hunt, the
people of the State · of Arizona have for the seventh time
elected that grand old champion of the people to the
exalted position of Governor of their sovereign State; and
WHEREAS, at the same time the body politic,
reposing special confidence and trust in organjzed Demo­cracy
by electing an almost unanimously Democratic leg­islature,
looks forward to a unity of purpose in correcting
the · evils that surround its citizenry; in solving the many
problems of statecraft that confront the State; in earnest
endeavor to solve the problems of taxation; and in gen ..
era! to enact rightfully and fearlessly such laws as will
most efficiently serve the public good.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that in
furtherance of the trust imposed upon, the Honorable
George W. P. Hunt, by the people of the State, the
House of Representatives of the Tenth State Legislature
of the State of Arizona, the State Senate concurring,
does hereby pledge its fealty and loyal support in every
manner conducive to the welfare of the people of the
State, to the end that full and complete harmony exist
between the Honorable George W. P. Hunt, Governor
of the State of Arizona and the Tenth State Legislature;
and
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution
be spread in full upon the minutes of the Journals of
the House of Representatives and an enrolled copy
thereof, suitably attached by the presiding officers of
each House, be presented to the Governor."
Motion by Mr. Coxon, seconded by MT. Rosenbaum, that the
rules be sus,pended, an emergency declared, and that House Con­current
Resolution No. 1 be not printed and placed under the Order
of Business, Second Reading of Bills, for today. Carried by a two­thirds
vote of all members elected to the House.
SECOND READING OF BILLS
The following Tesolution was read the second time by number
and title only:
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 1, by Mr. Han­non
of Greenlee, expressing legislativ€ support to the Governor.
Motion by Mr. Coxon, seconded by Mr. Rosenbaum, that the
rules be suspended, an emergency declared, and that House Con­current
Resolution No. 1 be placed under the Order of Business, Third
Reading of Bills, for today. Carried by a two-thirds vote of all mem­bers
elected to the House.
On second reading of House Concurrent Resolution No. 1,
motion by Mr. Coxon, seconded by Mr. Rosenbaum, that the re­quirement
of the Constitution, Article IV, Section 12, that bills and
joint resolutions be read by sections on different days, was dispensed
with in the matter of reading House Concurrent Resolution No. 1, on
second reading by a two-thirds vote of all members elected to the
House, a case of emergency being declared, and the foregoing reso­lution
,vas read the second time by number and title only.
THIRD READING OF BILLS
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 1, expressing the
fealty and loyal support of the Tenth Legislature of the State of
Arizona, to Honorable George W. P. Hunt, Governor of Arizona, was
read the third time in full and passed the House by the following
vote:
Ayes: Adams, Ashcroft, Baker, Barnette, Benham, Bevan,
Bohlinger, Bone, Bush, Callahan, Cavness, Coxon, Cowperthwaite,
Cureton, Decker, Doan, DuRoss, Flake, Francis,· Hinton, Jennings,
Jennings, Johnson, Johnson, Jones, Kelley, Leeper, Lewis, Lines,
Loveless, Malony, Marine, Merrill, McCormick, McKee, McQuillan,
Oxsheer, Patton, Peck, Penny, Phillips, Porter, Rapp, Reddington,
Richards, Rigney, Riggs, Rosenbaum, Sayers, Smith, Spear, Surber,
Tway, Udall, Valentine, Van Petten, Walters, Walton, Witt, Wieden,
Wiggins, Mr. Speaker-62.
Excused: Stewart-1.
JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE 4D
Signed in open session by the Speaker, and the clerk was
instructed to record the action of the House on the resolution and
convey it to the Senate.
Mr. Speaker appointed members Rosenbaum, Chairman, Love­less,
Oxsheer,, Kelley, Spear, Marine, Reddington a11d Witt as mem­bers
of the Committee on Printing.
Motion by Mr. Coxon, seconded by Mr. Reddington, that the
House stand adjourned until 10:00 o'clock a. m., Tuesday, January 13,
1931. Carried, and at 3 :38 o'clock p. m., the House so adjourned.
M. J. HANNON,
Speaker of the House.
ATTEST: LALLAH RUTH,
Chief Clerk.
TUESDAY, JANUARY THIRTEEN
The House met at l O: 00 o'clock a. m., in conformity with the
1·ules, Mr. Speaker presiding.
Roll call showed tho following members present:
Adams, Ashcroft, Baker, Barnette, Benham, Bevan, Bohling·er,
Bone, Bush, Callahan, Cavness, Coxon, Cowperthwaite, Cureton, Decker,
Doan, DuRoss, Flake, Francis, Hinton, Jennings, Jennings, Johnson,
Johnson, Jones, Kelley, Leeper, Lewis, Lines, Loveless, Mal.ony,
Marine, Merrill, McCormick, McKee, McQuillan, Oxsheer, Peck, Penny,
Phillips, Porter, Rapp, Reddington, Richards, Rigney, Riggs, Rosen­baum,
Sayers, Smith Spear. Surber, Tway, Udall, Valentine, Van
Petten, Walters, Walton, Witt, Wieden, Wiggins, Mr. Speaker-tll.
Excused; Patton, Stewart-2.
Reverend C. M. Burkhart, Chaplain of the House, offered prayer.
Without objection tbe reading of the Journal of the proceedings
of January 12, 1931, was dispensed with.
FIRST READING OF BILLS
The following bill was read the first time by nu1,11ber and title,
only:
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 2, by Mr. Red­dington
of Pima, conveying· regrets at the passing and respect to
the memory of Ralph E. Ellinwood.
Motion by Mr. Reddington, seconded by Mr. Rapu, that
rules be suspended, an emergency declared, and that House Con-
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current Resolution No. 2 be not printed and placed under the Order
of Business, Second Reading of Bills, for today. Carried by a two­thirds
vote of all members elected to the House.
On first reading of House Concurrent Resolution No. 2, motion
by Mr. Reddington, seconded by Mr. Rapp, that the requirement of
the Constitution, Article IV, Section 12, that bills and joint resolu­tions
be read by sections on different days, was dispensed with in
the matter of reading House Concurrent Resolution No. 2, on first
reading by a two-thirds vote of all members elected to the House,
a case of emergency being declared, and the foregoing bill was read!
the first time by number and title only.
SECOND READING OF BILLS
The following bill was read the second time by number and
title only.
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 2, by Mr. Red­.
dington of Pima, in memory of Ralph E. Ellinwood.
Motion by Mr. Reddington, seconded by Mr. Rapp, that the
rules be suspended, an emergency declared, and that House Concur­rent
Resolution No. 2 be placed under the Order of Business, Third
Reading of Bills, for today. Carried by a two-thirds vote of all
members elected to the House.
On second reading of House Concurrent Resolution No. 2, mo­tion
by Mr. Reddington, seconded by Mr. Rapp, that the requirement
.of the Constitution, Article IV, Section 12, that bills and joint reso­lutions
be read by sections on different days, was dispensed with in
the matter of reading House Concurrent Resolution No. 2, on second
reading by a two-thirds vote of all members elected to the House,
a case of emergency being declared, and the foregoing resolution was
read the second time by number and title only.
THIRD READING OF BILLS
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 2, conveying ri;)·
grets at the passing, and respect to the memory of Ralph E. Ellin­wood,
was read the third time in full and passed the House by the
following vote:
Ayes: Adams, Ashcroft, Baker, Barnette, Benham, Bevan,
Bohlinger, Bone, Bush, Callahan, Cavness, Coxon, Cowperthwaite,
Cureton, Decker, Doan, DuRoss, Flake, Francis, Hinton, Jennings,
Jennings, Johnson, Johnson, Jones, Kelley, Leeper, Lewis, Lines, Love­less,
Malony, Marine, Merrill, McCormick, McKee, McQuillan, Ox­sheer,
Peck, Penny, Phillips, Porter, Rapp, Reddington, Richards,
Rigney, Riggs, Rosenbaum, Sayers, Smith, Spear, Surber, Tway,
Udall, Valentine, Van Petten, Walters, Walton, Witt, \Vieden, 'Nig­gins,
Mr. Speaker-61.
Excused: Patton, Stewart-2.
JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE 51
Signed in open session by the Speaker, and the clerk was
instructed to record the action of the House on the bill and convey
it to the Senate.
Motion by Mrs. Bush, seconded by Mr. Kelley, that the rules
governing the Ninth Legislature be adopted for use in the Tenth
Legislature. Carried.
Motion by Mr. McCormick, seconded by Mr. Francis, that the
Press be extended the privileges of the floor. Carried.
Motion by Mr. Reddington, seconded by Mrs. Bush, that the
House stand at recess subject to the call of the gavel. Carried, and
at 10:25 o'clock a. m., the House stood at recess.
At 11 :20 o'clock a. m., Mr. Speaker called the House to order.
Mr. Speaker announced the following Standing Commitrees had
been appointed:
ACCOUNTING AND BUSINESS METHODS: Walton, Chair­.
nan, Rigney, Van Petten, R. L. Jennings, Ashcroft, Cureton.
iAGRICULTURE
Sayers, Cureton, Lines,
.T ohnson, Walton, Flake,
-Jennings.
AND IRRIGATION: Loveless, Chairman,
DuRoss, Van Petten, Bush, Cavness, A. VV.
Phillips, Surber, Udall, Wiedon, Peck, R. L .
APPROPRIATIONS: Rigney, Chairman, Hinton, Kelley, Bone,
Benham, McCormick, McQuillan, Adams, Tway, Patton, Stewart.
BANKING AND INSURANCE: C. Johnson, Chairman, Doan,
McKee, ,Jones, Coxon, Stewart, Tway, A. "\V. Johnson, R. L. Jennings.
CAPITOL BUILDING AND GROUNDS: Lewis, Chairman,
Porter, Sayers, Adams, Rosenbaum.
CHILD WELFARE: Porter, Chairman, Leeper, Cureton, Penny,
Flake, Cavness, Phillips, Rigney.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AND REFERENDUM:
Malony, Chairman, Lewis, Bush, Spear, R. L. Jennings, Phillips.
CORPORATIONS: Oxsheer, Chairman, Cowperthwaite, Richards,
C. Johnson, Marine, Benham, Baker, Valentine.
COUNTY AND COUNTY AFFAIRS: Bone, Chairman, Ash­croft,
Callahan, Udall, Lewis, Marine, Riggs, Walters.
EDUCATION: Callahan, Chairman, Cureton, Hinton, Bevan,
Lines, Cavness, McKee, Doan, Van Petten, Peck, ,valton, Rapp.
EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT: Jones, Chafrrnan, Wiggins, Wie­den,
Reddington, Barnette.
ENROLLING AND ENGROSSING: Leeper, Chairman, C.
Johnson, A. W. Johnson, McKee.
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FISH AND GAME: Decker, Chairman, lVl:errill, Barnette, Wal­ters,
VViggins, Witt, Ashcroft, Surber.
HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES: Spear, Chairman, Smith, Valen­tine,
Coxon, Barnette, Kelley, Lines, Bohlinger.
Jl:DICIARY: Bush, Chairman, Valentine, Udall, Loveless, Smith,
Penny, R. L. Jennings, Coxon, Riggs, Reddington, Doan, Rapp.
LABOR: Francis, Chairman, McQuillan, Wieden, Surber, Baker,
Jones, Merrill, Otxsheer, J. F. Jennings.
LIVESTOCK: Witt, Chah-man, Ashcroft, Adan1S, Walters, Bar­nette,
Flake, Bohlinger, Cavness.
MILITIA AND PUBLIC DEFENSE: Rapp, Chairman, Tway,
R.iggs, Peck, DuRoss.
MINES AND MINING: Bohlinger, Chairman, Smith, Richards,
Cowperthwaite, Wiggins, Benham, Bevan.
PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS: Valentine, Chairman, Riggs,
Bone, Sayers, Richards.
PRINTING AND CLERKS: Rosenbaum, Chairman, Witt, Love­less,
Oxsheer, Kelley, Spear, Marine, Reddington.
PUBLIC HEALTH: J. F. Jennings, Chairman, Patton, Peck,
'P\lieden, Porter, Malony, DuRoss, Benham, L0eper.
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS: Francis, Chairman, Malony, Calla­han,
Hinton, Decker, Riggs, Sayers, Bevan, Leeper, Porter.
PUBLIC LANDS: Merrill, Chairman, Flake, Decker, Surber,
Baker, Penny, Malony, Phillips.
RULES: Hannon, Chairman, Patton, McQuillan.
SUFFFAGE AND ELECTIONS: Stewart, Chairman, DuRoss,
McKee, McCormick, Francis.
WAYS AND MEANS: Cowperthwaite, Chairman, Rosenbaum,
Reddington, McCormick, Marine, Walton, Oxsheer.
J~,.:.
Motion by Mr. Francis, seconded by Mr. J. F. Jennings, that
-i:,he House stand adjourned until 10:00 o'clock a. m. iVednesday, Jan­uary
14, 1931. Canied, and at 11 :30 o'clock a. m., the House so
adjourned.
ATTEST: LALLAH RUTH,
Chief Clerk.
M .• J. HANNON,
Speake1· of the House.
JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE 53
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY FOURTEEN
The House met at 10:00 o'clock, a. m., in conformity with the
rules, lVh. Speaker presiding.
Roll call showed the following· mt:mbers present:
Adams, Ashcroft, Baker, Barnette, Benham, Bevan, l8ohling:e1·,
Bone, Bush, Callahan, Cavness, Coxon, Cureton, Decker, Duan, DuRoss,
:F'lake, F'rancis, Hinton, J. F. ;Jennings, Johnson, Johnson, Jones,
Kelley, LeepN, Lewis, Lines, Loveless, Malony, Marine, Merrill, lVk·
Cormick, McKee, McQuillan, Patton, Peck, Phillips Porter, Rapp,
Reddington, Richards, Rigney, Riggs, Rosenbaum, Sayers, Smith,
Spear, Surber, Tway, Udall, Valentine, Van Petten, ·walters, ·walton,
·witt, Wieden, Wiggins, Mr. Speaker-58.
Absent: Renz L. Jennings-1.
Excused: Cowperthwaite, Oxsheer, Penny, Stewart-4.
Reverend C. M. Burkhart, Chaplain of the House, offered
prayer.
Without objection the reading of the Journal of the proceedings
of January 13, 1931, was dispensed with.
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES
Mr. Rosenbaum as Chairman of the Committee on Printing and
Clerks, reported contracts had be1on 1entered info with the 'Ninslow
Daily J\/Iail, by C. D. Giragi; Prescott Evening Courier, by W. P.
Stuart; and Dunbar's Weekly, by Sydney P. Osborn, for the printing
of the Legislative Journal and the printing of bills. Contracts had
also been entered into with The Messeng·er, for the printing of all
forms for the House; Casa Grande Dispatch, for the printing of the
Rules of the House and Senate; Manufacturing Stationers for the
printing of stationery.
Motion by Mrs. Bush, seconded by Mr. Decker, that the Teport
of the Chairman on Printing and Clerks be adopted. Canied.
REPORTS OIF SELECT COMMITTEES
The Committee on Patronage submitted the following 1·eport:
"January 14, 1931.
Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Patronage reports that it has
had under consideration the following names as attaches
for the House of Representatives for the Tenth State
Legislature, and recommends that same be approved:
Assistant Chief Clerk. __________________ ... _.. .. ·-···------------Ruby Coulter
Chief Clerk's Aide _ .. ________________ ... _______ .. ____________ Marjorie Miller
Secretary to Chief Clerk. __________________________ ........ ----Pearl Meeks
Head Minute Clerk. __________ .. ___________________ ..... _____ Dorothy R Reed
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Minute Clerk. ........................................................... J ennie Wood
Minute Clerk. ..................................................... Kathryn Gilbert
Secretary to Speaker ........................... : .................... Geo. Martin
Clerk. .................................................................. R. J. Huddleston
Reader ............................................................................ J. 0. Kane
Assistant Reader .................................................... W. S. Caudill
Head Stenographer ........................................ Margaret Norton
Enrolling and Engrossing Clerk ................ W. Curtis Miller
Assistant E. & E. Clerk. ........................................... Ruth Giles
Proof Reader .................................................... Bess B. Loveless
Assistant Proof Reader ................................... Clifford Hudson
Proof Reader'. ........ ~ .................................................. Leda Cassidy
Page .......................................................................... Frank Blount
Telephone Girl ...................................................... Melenda Burns
Clerk. ....................................................................... Orpha Statler
Clerk .................................................................. Mrs. C. L. Guynn
Clerk .................................................................. Mrs. Sam Bishop
Clerk. ................................................................... Harriett Latham
Clerk. ............................................................... Virginia Stanifiod
Clerk ........................................................................ Dora Pomeroy
Clerk .......................................................................... L. J, Weaver
Clerk. ............................................................ Gertrude R. Murphy
Clerk ............................................................................ Sarah Burns
Clerk .................................................................... Ida H. Kirkwood
Clerk .............................................................. , ........... : ... Fen Harris
Clerk ............................................................................ Wray Boyer
Clerk .......................................................... ·· .................... Lucy Hall
Clerk .................................................................... L. P. Robinson
Clerk. ....................................................................... Mary C. Doan
Clerk. ....................................................................... Lucia Allinins
Clerk. ..................................................................... Minnie Darling
Clerk ......................................................................... A. J. Stephens
Clerk. ....................................................................... L. E. Walters
C1erk. ..................................................................... Mary E. Kelley
Clerk. ..................................................................... George A. Peck
Clerk. ........................................................................... Mary Foster
Clerk .................................................................... Elizabeth Stultz
Clerk. ......................................................... , ................... Lon Baker
Supply Clerk. ................................................... Della Rosenbaum
Clerk. ............................................................................... Ruth Foot
Clerk ........................................................................ Lloyd Wilhite,
Clerk. ..................................................................... H. F. Edwards·
Door Keeper .......................................................... Bishop Merrill
Door Keeper ................................................................ Joe Lazure·
Door Keeper ................................................................ Joe Nugent
Nightwatchman .................................................... G. B. . Johnson
Nightwatchman .......................................................... Jim Hagan
Asst. Door Keeper .............................................. Alfred Skeels·
Asst. Door Keeper ............................................ Chas. Corrigan
Proof Reader ............................................................ Amber Doyle,
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Post Mistress .................................................. Ana May Griggs
Asst. Postmaster ................................................ Howard Boulter
Head Page ........... , ........................................................ Ella Voita
Clerk .......................................................................... Lucille Riggs
Bill Cl2rk .......................................................... Peggy Brakeman
Stenographer .................................................... Winifred Danbey
Clerk., ................................................................ Mrs. J. M. Weber
Clerk. ....................................................................... Francillo Hill
Clerk. ............................................................... Mrs. B. Armstrong
Head Page ....................................... , ...................... H. L. Hilbers
Secretary of Printing Committee ........ Margaret Laughrain
Speaker's Page ........................................................ Ruth Laboy
Journal Clerk. ........................................................... Cece Gibson
Page ............................................................................ N eta Surber
Page ............................................................ Mrs. M. M. Chestnut
Page ............................................................................ Pearl Robins
Page .......................................................................... Rea Davidson
Clerk ........................................................................ Lydia Aguirre
Clerk. ............................................................... Mary Jane Stelzer
Proof Reader ........................................................ Mary I. Munch
Proof Reader ................................................ J osephine Henness
Clerk ................................................................ Ana M. Thompson
Clerk. ....................................................................... Miss McBride
Stenographer .................................................... Carroll Saunders
Stenographer ............................................ Billie Connor Tappan
Stenograhper .................................................... Ethel, Richardson
Stenographer .............................................................. Reba Smith
Stenographer .............................................. Bernice Nottingham
Stenographer ................................................ Francis M. Gardner
Page .......................................................................... Florence Olds
Stenographer .............................................................. Ann Fulton
Stenographer ............................................................ Ethel Fannin
Clerk. ............................................................... Emily C. St. Johns
Stenographer .......................................................... Gladys Adams
Stenographer ........................................................ Ruth Patterson
Mail Carrier .............................................................. Tom Adams
Messenger .............................................................. Julia Mahoney
Nightwatchman ............................................................ Ed. Irwine
Nightwatchman .......................................................... I. P. Lenoir
Janitor ................................................................ G. Wilson Wiley
Janitor ........................................................................ C. D. Jolley
l\l[atron ........................................................................ C. F. Dagler
Law Clerk. ........................................................... Helen V. Spear
Stenographer ........................................................ Frank R. Davis
Clerk. ...................................................................... Vevette vVilson
Clerk. ......................................................................... Mark Jenkins
Clerk. ................................................................... D. B. Hutchins
Clerk. ......................................................................... J. D. Bennett
Clerk. ......................................................................... Bess Darnell
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ClerL _________________________________________________________________ Grace C. Miller
vVatchman ___________________________________________________________ ,Ernest Carter
Placed on file.
J. LEE LOVELESS,
Chairman.
Motion by Mr. Loveless, seconded by Mr. Francis, that the
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